When running thunderbird, either, here as started from the console:
nicholas@mordor:~$ thunderbird
[calBackendLoader] Using Thunderbird's libical backend
console.debug: "Successfully loaded OpenPGP library librnp.so version 0.14+git20210121.7c8492b4.MZLA from /usr/lib/thunderbird/librnp.so"
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActorManagerChild.jsm, line 297: TypeError: singletons is null
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActorManagerChild.jsm, line 297: TypeError: singletons is null
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActorManagerChild.jsm, line 297: TypeError: singletons is null
console.debug: "Trying to load /usr/lib/thunderbird/libotr.so.5"
console.debug: "Trying to load libotr.so.5 from system's standard library locations"
console.debug: "Trying to load libotr.so from system's standard library locations"
console.log: (new Error("Cannot load required OTR library", "resource:///modules/OTRLib.jsm", 91))
console.debug: "Found 0 public keys and 0 secret keys (0 protected, 0 unprotected)"
console.debug: "Successfully loaded optional OpenPGP library libgpgme.so.11 from system's standard library locations"
console.debug: "gpgme version: 1.14.0-unknown"
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
or simply by clicking the icon, I seem to get two windows as indicated by the two dots on the thunderbird icon. However, I can never seem to switch to the other window. Quitting thunderbird through its menu, or otherwise exiting or killing thunderbird causes an immediate end to the session.
Why?
see also:
Thunderbird strange behaviour. Ubuntu 21.04
which may relate to the same root cause, with different symptoms.
Incidentally, have run sudo apt-get install libotr5 yet still see those debug messages. Not sure how relevant that is.
more data:
nicholas@mordor:~$ thunderbird
[calBackendLoader] Using Thunderbird's libical backend
console.debug: "Successfully loaded OpenPGP library librnp.so version 0.14+git20210121.7c8492b4.MZLA from /usr/lib/thunderbird/librnp.so"
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActorManagerChild.jsm, line 297: TypeError: singletons is null
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActorManagerChild.jsm, line 297: TypeError: singletons is null
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActorManagerChild.jsm, line 297: TypeError: singletons is null
console.debug: "Trying to load /usr/lib/thunderbird/libotr.so.5"
console.debug: "Trying to load libotr.so.5 from system's standard library locations"
console.debug: "Successfully loaded OTR library libotr.so.5 from system's standard library locations"
console.debug: "Found 0 public keys and 0 secret keys (0 protected, 0 unprotected)"
console.debug: "Successfully loaded optional OpenPGP library libgpgme.so.11 from system's standard library locations"
console.debug: "gpgme version: 1.14.0-unknown"
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ActivityManager.jsm, line 127: NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE:
noting that libotr.so.5 was successfully loaded.
It seems that every sent message stays as an "open window" in that there are many "dots" next to the thunderbird icon -- yet they cannot be switched to.
