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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lars,

See the tests I have done in the bug report

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1228002

...

Next step:

I started to suspect the nvidia proprietary drivers. I tried another one
(the default current one as well as 173 and 304). The problem persisted.

'Solution':

Now I'm using the built in driver nouveau.

I have an nvidia graphics card: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT
430] (rev a1), and it has worked well since I bought it some year ago.
But now the nvidia proprietary drivers bork Thunderbird I managed to
write/reply ten letters in a row without issues, which has been far from
possible after the upgrade of Thunderbird Sept 19.

New problem:

But the solution for Thunderbird breaks the possibility to use VDPAU
with mplayer to play HD video (1080-50p) without issues. The computer,
an hp xw8400 workstation, is not powerful enough to manage it without
help of the graphics card and a proprietary driver.

There are also nvidia driver versions 310 and 319 in the repos. I might
try them later on, but I have little hope ...

-o-

But now that I write to you, the bug pops up its ugly face again, so
nouveau maybe improves the situation, but it does not solve it. (I had
to close the main Tbird window to get the cursor and write this letter).

Best regards
Nio

On 2013-09-23 11:51, Lars Noodén wrote:
> On 09/23/2013 12:47 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> On 2013-09-21 18:02, Lars Noodén wrote:> On 09/20/2013 09:57 AM, Nio 
>> Wiklund wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> In my production machine I run Ubuntu with lubuntu-desktop
>>>>
>>>> After the update yesterday (Sept 19 2013). I have a problem with
>> Thunderbird
>>>>
>>>> The window to write letters (or reply to letters) is borked.
>>>> There is no cursor, and although it is focused, the active window
>>>> is still the main Thunderbird window, so I can't write anything.
>>>> This happens after running Thunderbird for a while, and I have to
>>>> close and re-open Thunderbird to be able to write a letter
>>>> again.
>>>
>>> I've been looking today and yesterday, leaving drafts open and
>>> such, but am unable to reproduce the error you describe.  I've got
>>> Thunderbird 24.0 also but on AMD64.
>>>
>>> Installed: 1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu1
>>>
>>> Regards, /Lars
>>>
>> Hi Lars,
>>
>> I get this problem frequently. Today it would not work after restart
>> of the program. Not even after reboot of the system.
>>
>> What I tried to do is to 'Reply to all'. Then I tried many things,
>> and found that I could start a normal original letter (no reply, no
>> forward), and the cursor was active in its window. Then directly
>> afterwards, I could start a 'Reply to all' window and the cursor was
>> there and I could write the reply.
>>
>> But I need to restart Thunderbird to get a cursor in the editing
>> window for a normal original letter.
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1228002
>>
>> Best regards Nio
>>
> Have you tried with a new, clean profile?
> I've had some different problems in the past, twice if I recall
> correctly.  They were fixed by starting a new profile.  It was a bit of
> a pain to export / import all the customizations but it worked.
> 
> Regards,
> /Lars
>