Fedup issue with thunderbird

I upgraded to fedora 20 from fedora 19 using fedup. Everything went well 
except for some weird issues with Thunderbird. The latter is now giving 
me a pile of weird permission errors and disk space errors. There is 
215GB free space, so I know that is not the problem. Obviously this has 
somethign to do with the permissions on the .thunderbird folder, but I 
do not have the knoweldge to rectify the problem. Could somebody kindly 
nudge me in the right direction?

Thanks!

[SternData]

On 04/23/2014 06:40 AM, [e-mail] wrote:
> I upgraded to fedora 20 from fedora 19 using fedup. Everything went well
> except for some weird issues with Thunderbird. The latter is now giving
> me a pile of weird permission errors and disk space errors. There is
> 215GB free space, so I know that is not the problem. Obviously this has
> somethign to do with the permissions on the .thunderbird folder, but I
> do not have the knoweldge to rectify the problem. Could somebody kindly
> nudge me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks!

$ ls -ldZ .thunderbird
drwxr-xr-x. sdstern sdstern system_u:object_r:mozilla_home_t:s0 .thunderbird

This suggest that there may be problems if you have quotas enabled

http://superuser.com/questions/629914/howto-deal-with-the-there-is-not-enoug...

On 04/23/2014 08:48 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 04/23/2014 06:40 AM, [e-mail] wrote:
> > I upgraded to fedora 20 from fedora 19 using fedup. Everything went well
> > except for some weird issues with Thunderbird. The latter is now giving
> > me a pile of weird permission errors and disk space errors. There is
> > 215GB free space, so I know that is not the problem. Obviously this has
> > somethign to do with the permissions on the .thunderbird folder, but I
> > do not have the knoweldge to rectify the problem. Could somebody kindly
> > nudge me in the right direction?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> $ ls -ldZ .thunderbird
> drwxr-xr-x. sdstern sdstern system_u:object_r:mozilla_home_t:s0 .thunderbird
>
> This suggest that there may be problems if you have quotas enabled
>
> http://superuser.com/questions/629914/howto-deal-with-the-there-is-not-enoug...

Hmmmm... thanks for the heads-up. This seems to be something worthy of 
investigation. I'm about to use fedup on my laptop. It will be 
interesting to see what happens.

[Ed Greshko]

On 04/23/14 19:40, [e-mail] wrote:
> I upgraded to fedora 20 from fedora 19 using fedup. Everything went well except for some weird issues with Thunderbird. The latter is now giving me a pile of weird permission errors and disk space errors. There is 215GB free space, so I know that is not the problem. Obviously this has somethign to do with the permissions on the .thunderbird folder, but I do not have the knoweldge to rectify the problem. Could somebody kindly nudge me in the right direction?

Since fedup doesn't muck with user files, it is doubtful to be a permission issue on your ~/.thunderbird directory.  Everything under that directory will be owned by your username.  Certainly you can ensure that the files are owned by your username by doing....

chown -R username:usergroup ~/.thunderbird    (using the appropriate values)

You'd be much better served to actually post the actual error messages you are getting as opposed to people assuming what you're seeing and then making suggestions based on assumptions that may not be valid.

On 04/23/2014 08:51 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 04/23/14 19:40, [e-mail] wrote:
> > I upgraded to fedora 20 from fedora 19 using fedup. Everything went well except for some weird issues with Thunderbird. The latter is now giving me a pile of weird permission errors and disk space errors. There is 215GB free space, so I know that is not the problem. Obviously this has somethign to do with the permissions on the .thunderbird folder, but I do not have the knoweldge to rectify the problem. Could somebody kindly nudge me in the right direction?
>
> Since fedup doesn't muck with user files, it is doubtful to be a permission issue on your ~/.thunderbird directory.  Everything under that directory will be owned by your username.  Certainly you can ensure that the files are owned by your username by doing....
>
> chown -R username:usergroup ~/.thunderbird    (using the appropriate values)
>
> You'd be much better served to actually post the actual error messages you are getting as opposed to people assuming what you're seeing and then making suggestions based on assumptions that may not be valid.

I checked the backup copy I made of .thunderbird before upgrading and 
the permissions were not the same. I then changed the permissions on the 
upgraded folder using info found on mozilla forums, etc... with no 
change. The solution seems to be to delete all the folders, sub-folders, 
and message filters and rebuild them. I also was extremely pressed for 
time, and sent in the email extremely quickly before I could include the 
exact message errors. I apologize for the omission(s).