Weird errors when trying to start thunderbird from command line
Torsten Kupke
Hi,
I've got a new workstation with Ubuntu 18.04. I installed TurboVNC 2.2.6 there. The preinstalled Thunderbird 68 didn't have a calendar tab, because in that tb version it still was the lightning add-on, which isn't available anymore. In Thunderbird 78 the calendar tab is fully integrated. So lightning isn't needed anymore. That's the reason, why it isn't available anymore. So I uninstalled tb 68 and installed tb78. But this version cannot be startet. When I try to start it from command line, I get these errors:
~$ thunderbird
No protocol specified
Unable to init server: Verbindung ist gescheitert: Connection refused
Error: cannot open display: :1
"Verbindung ist gescheitert" means "Connection has failed" in english. Display ":1" is the TurboVNC session I'm connected to at this point. So why does the TurboVNC server refuse the connection of Thunderbird here? And what does "No protocol specified" mean here?
BR
Torsten
DRC
It looks like you may be encountering this issue:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882122
If the issue only exists within TurboVNC, then I will investigate it as a TurboVNC bug. If it is reproducible outside of TurboVNC, then it's someone else's problem.
Torsten Kupke
Hi DRC,
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882122 didn't really help, because my TB 78 was installed as a snap package. So whatever I tried, the three error lines remained the same. There were no more informations available. So I uninstalled TB 78 and installed TB 68 again. And as expected, TB 68 works (I just use it to write this), but the calendar tab is not available. I think, I have to wait, until Canonical provides a newer (properly working) TB version, which has a calendar tab again. I know, TB can be downloaded as bzipped package and unzipped manually. But this I don't want to do on a workstation of my employer.
Whether it is
reproducible outside of TurboVNC, I unfortunately cannot test,
because I'm currently working at home permanently.
BR
Torsten
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DRC
I just tried the official build of 78.10.0 (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/all) in an Ubuntu 18.04 VM, and it works fine for me.
You can verify whether an issue is TurboVNC-specific by using literally any other X server. A TigerVNC instance would work. Xvfb would also work in this case, because the issue occurs during application startup. You could also use VM software such as VirtualBox on your client machine to test issues such as these.
This project doesn't have a lot of resources, and those resources are about to become more constrained, given the high likelihood that I will have to borrow against the entire 2021/2022 TurboVNC General Fund in order to finish the 3.0 release. Thus, I would greatly appreciate it if users do as much triage as possible before filing a bug report against TurboVNC.
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Torsten Kupke
Yes, that's the bzipped package I mentioned before, which I don't want to unzip here. I just found a solution for TB 68 here:
sudo apt install xul-ext-lightning
Now the calendar tab is back. I just need to do some configs to synchronize it with my calendar provider.
Many thanks, I'm very happy with TurboVNC! And I'm sorry, the
issue here with Thunderbird is really not your thing.
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