[Sussex] Thunderbird Problem

[Colin Tuckley]

Desmond Armstrong wrote:

> The system is now working fine but it did take some time to find out how
> to to do this, so, if anybody has better idea I would like to hear.
> Also I would like to know how it managed to hog the CPU.
> 
> Desmond Armstrong wrote:
> 
>> Dear Experts,
>> I have run into a problem with Thunderbird.
>> I was cleaning it up and now when I start it it takes all the CPU and
>> I don't know how long it is carrying on for like this.
>> I have scanned belatedly using clam av and found a number of viruses,
>> but I can't see that this could have any effect.
>> Can anybody suggest what I can do to unlock this problem.

This sounds a little like a problem I have with Thunderbird on my Debian
Etch system which I think is a bug.

I have Thunderbird and gnupg set up to display the image attached to a
public key, if one exists, when it displays a signed Email. The display
thread blocks Thunderbird until I close the image window. If I try to do
anything to the Email before closing the image, especially move it to
another folder, than things lock up. I think this is because I take the
focus away from the image and something stops it getting it back as I can't
then close the image to unlock things.

However, I have discovered that if I kill the image display task things
start working again. Of course since the display is locked I have to do that
by using SSH from another computer!

Colin

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