Can't display text messaging -

[poma]

On 25.04.2015 19:37, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/25/15 13:08, poma wrote:
>> On that page, click on the "Descendants build" link:
>> "buildArch (thunderbird-31.6.0-1.fc22.src.rpm, x86_64)"
>>
>> You'll find there a link for:
>> thunderbird-31.6.0-1.fc22.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> Next you know what to do?
> Good, Thunderbird is now ver. 31.6.0 per Help > About ...
> 
> But it still does not display the text messages. It receives then, 
> announces a message has arrived, but I have to look at the source to 
> read it.
> 

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1071345

Make a data copy:
$ cp -a ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird-bkp

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/channel
Check with v38 beta2, so you have a reference:

$ wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/latest-beta/linux-x86_64/en-US/thunderbird-38.0b2.tar.bz2

$ tar xf thunderbird-38.0b2.tar.bz2

$ ./thunderbird/thunderbird --version

 Thunderbird 38.0

$ ./thunderbird/thunderbird