OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

[Rolf Turner]

On 12/07/14 14:44, Ed Greshko wrote:

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>>>> P. S. I am running Thunderbird 17.0.7, if that is of any relevance.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It should not matter....but that is a very old version.
>>
>> So how might I upgrade to the latest version? I must confess that
>> Iam running a very elderly version of Fedora (17, to be explicit). I
>> don't dare try to upgrade my Fedora version, given what I have read on
>> this list about the problems that are involved with such upgrades. I
>> cannot afford to be stuck with a broken system. I am not sufficiently
>> knowledgeable to be able to fix a broken system and I have no local
>> resources to give me assistance.
>>
>> Would I need a more recent version of Fedora in order to get a
>> morerecent version of Thunderbird to run?
>
> Since F17 is EOL you can't update from the Fedora Repos. You'd have
> toinstall the latest version after downloading from Mozilla's website.

Just tried to do that.  I:

* downloaded the tarball thunderbird-24.6.0.tar.bz2
* unpacked it, getting a directory "thunderbird"
* put this into /usr/lib64, which is where the thunderbird directory
   for my 17.0.7  version lived
* tried to start thunderbird
* got the error message

> XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/thunderbird/libxul.so:
> libdbus-glib-1.so.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
> Couldn't load XPCOM.

Naturally I have no idea what this really means, or what if anything can 
be done about it.

***Is*** there anything that can be done about it?  If so, what?  Please 
keep it simple and explicit, if you would be so kind.  I need a *recipe* 
--- "Do this, and then this, and then this ...."  I understand a fair 
bit of Linux jargon, but there is a *HUGE* amount that I don't 
understand, so please phrase things in a way that a non-techie might be 
able to follow.

For the moment I have put the old version 17.0.7 thunderbird directory 
(of which I had very cleverly --- :-) --- kept a copy) back in place, 
and that version of thunderbird runs with no more problems than it ever had.

Thanks for any tips.

cheers,

Rolf Turner