[ale] Thunderbird won't Lightning
Scott Castaline
hscast at charter.net
Sat Nov 8 14:55:56 EST 2008
Jim Philips wrote:
> Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> Jim Philips wrote:
>>
>>> I'm running Kubuntu Intrepid here. I installed Thunderbird from the
>>> repositories and then installed Lightning. But when I go to the
>>> calendar, the "new event" and "new task" buttons are grayed out. Indeed,
>>> anything relating to calendar in configuration or setup is grayed out. I
>>> tried renaming .mozilla-thunderbird and starting fresh, but this made no
>>> difference. I did a recursive chown and chgrp on everything in my home
>>> directory, just in case something was out there with the wrong
>>> privileges. Nothing. Anybody got any ideas?
>>>
>> my calendar isn't under mozilla thunderbird, it is under
>> ~login/.thunderbird:
>>
>> paulandcilla:/home/pbc/.thunderbird/wqpth6jt.default/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/chrome#
>> ls -l
>> total 8384
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 146071 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-ca.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 134676 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-cs.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 134604 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-da.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 152379 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-de.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 143319 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-en-US.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 144240 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-es-AR.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 127270 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-es-ES.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 135756 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-eu.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 148005 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-fr.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 137636 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-ga-IE.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 147061 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-hu.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 134675 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-is.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 126404 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-it.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 150484 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-ja.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 150771 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-ja-JP-mac.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 2212424 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 198719 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-ka.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 141638 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-ko.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 146948 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-lt.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 143897 2008-09-17 19:11 calendar-nb-NO.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 146018 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-nl.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 143600 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-nn-NO.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 150566 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-pl.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 146281 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-pt-BR.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 145848 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-pt-PT.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 147742 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-ro.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 162225 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-ru.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 147376 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-sk.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 143628 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-sl.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 145362 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-sv-SE.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 157733 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-uk.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 121017 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-zh-CN.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 141710 2008-09-17 19:12 calendar-zh-TW.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 153728 2008-09-17 19:12 chromelist.txt
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 pbc pbc 4096 2008-09-30 09:31 icons
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31417 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-ca.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31293 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-cs.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 30921 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-da.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 32770 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-de.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31020 2008-09-17 19:12 lightning-en-US.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31491 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-es-AR.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31542 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-es-ES.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 30998 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-eu.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 32824 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-fr.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 32977 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-ga-IE.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31872 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-hu.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31374 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-is.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31201 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-it.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 44371 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-ja.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 44410 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-ja-JP-mac.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 214833 2008-09-17 19:12 lightning.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 63900 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-ka.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31398 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-ko.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 34720 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-lt.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31376 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-nb-NO.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31797 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-nl.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31339 2008-09-17 19:11 lightning-nn-NO.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 32317 2008-09-17 19:12 lightning-pl.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31323 2008-09-17 19:12 lightning-pt-BR.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31620 2008-09-17 19:12 lightning-pt-PT.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31290 2008-09-17 19:12 lightning-ro.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 38003 2008-09-17 19:12 lightning-ru.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31476 2008-09-17 19:12 lightning-sk.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31246 2008-09-17 19:12 lightning-sl.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31402 2008-09-17 19:12 lightning-sv-SE.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 38455 2008-09-17 19:12 lightning-uk.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 31912 2008-09-17 19:12 lightning-zh-CN.jar
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 pbc pbc 32807 2008-09-17 19:12 lightning-zh-TW.jar
>> paulandcilla:/home/pbc/.thunderbird/wqpth6jt.default/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/chrome#
>>
>>
> I don't have a .thunderbird directory here. But if I go to the
> equivalent directory under .mozilla-thunderbird, I see the same files
> with the same permissions. So, while it seems to behave like a
> permissions thing, I don't see how it could be that. My earlier sudo
> chown -R *, sudo chgrp -R * should have taken care of that. Everything
> in my home directory belongs to me and my group.
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This sounds like what I had with Fedora 9. I installed T-Bird from the
Repo and Lightning from the Mozilla. It turned out that I had to install
lightning from the Fedora repos. Check the Ubuntu repos see if they have
their own variant of lightning.
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