[SWLUG] Backup Backup then Upgrade Ubuntu!

[ilyan]

Thanks Matt!   I had tried that to no avail.  However after a few shut
downs, trying it again has brought it up.  

Ilyan


On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 00:01 +0100, Matt Willsher wrote:
> 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