[SWLUG] Backup Backup then Upgrade Ubuntu!

[Matt Willsher]

ilyan wrote:
> Then I did an upgrade, clicked to say to keep the setup I had.  But have
> lost the Thunderbird.   "Failed to execute child process Mozilla
> Thunderbird ("no such file or directory")" comes up when I click on the
> little black square that now appears where Thunderbird used to be.
> Though now I seem to have turned that black into a tray on a spring.
>
> Is that likely to be a fatal loss of back emails and addresses?
Hopefully not! If your home directory is otherwise intact you are 
probably fine :)

>    any suggestions for recovery?
>   
A few things to try:

Check under the main menu and Internet (sorry, from memory - it might be 
under another menu) - is it there?
If not,  have you check the Synaptic package manager for Thunderbird? If 
it saying it's installed try uninstalling (purge if you can) then reinstall.


Matt