Re: Thunderbird botch

[<nikita%n0.is@localhost>]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:42:19 -0600, Greg Oster <oster%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> On 9/21/20 8:46 AM, Hauke Fath wrote:
> > I made the grave mistake of upgrading Thunderbird to 78 without a backup 
> > of ~/.thunderbird...
> > 
> > Platform is netbsd-9 (amd64) with pkgsrc X11. The machine completed a 
> > pkg_rolling-replace today.
> > 
> > The newly installed mail/thunderbird converted my profile, but is unable 
> > to render half of its UI - no mailboxes.
>>
> > Do the updated Thunderbirds work for anybody?
> 
> It's been working fine for me after the update... netbsd-9 (amd64) with 
> base X11.  I note that the icons changed, as did some of the colors used 
> (e.g. when replying to email).  At one point I think it also decided to 
> re-download all the mail in all folders, which was somewhat less than 
> amusing, but didn't seem to break anything.
> 
> Later...
> 
> Greg Oster

I have the same issue I believe.

Opening preferences looks like this:

[calBackendLoader] Using Thunderbird's libical backend
console.debug: "Successfully loaded OpenPGP library librnp.so from /usr/pkg/lib/thunderbird/librnp.so"
console.debug: "public keys: 0, secret keys: 0"
console.debug: "0 protected and 0 unprotected keys"
JavaScript error: chrome://messenger/content/specialTabs.js, line 1051: TypeError: Cc['@mozilla.org/updates/update-manager;1'] is undefined
console.debug: "Successfully loaded OTR library libotr.so.5 from system's standard library locations"
Error: No such tab mode: preferencesTab
-- Exception object --
*
-- Stack Trace --
openTab@chrome://messenger/content/tabmail.js:926:17
openTab@chrome://communicator/content/utilityOverlay.js:267:22
openPreferencesTab@chrome://communicator/content/utilityOverlay.js:322:10
openOptionsDialog@chrome://messenger/content/mailCore.js:558:21
oncommand@chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xhtml:1:1


Opening account settings works:

JavaScript error: chrome://messenger/content/folderPane.js, line 311: TypeError: gFolderTreeView._treeElement is undefined
console.error: (new TypeError("this.paneViews is null", "chrome://calendar/content/today-pane.js", 96))


I believe something is missing. I just upgraded to 9.99.73, updated pkgsrc 2 days ago and build + pkgin upgraded my system within the last hour.

Starting with a new .thunderbird folder does not change the treeview issue or other glitches.