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5ulo

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2012-05-04

Posts: 100

[SOLVED] Thunderbird profile missing or inaccessible

Out of sudden my Thunderbird wont run because of this message:

Your Thunderbird profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

Version latest pacman 38.5.0, tried downgrading to 38.4. I also renamed my profile directory so Thundrbird will create a new one - didn't work.

thunderbird --ProfileManager

ends with the same result.
What could broken? Thanks for any help.

edit:
I found that Firefox is having the same error:

Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

Last edited by 5ulo (2016-01-03 01:31:34)

5ulo

Member

From: Slovakia

Registered: 2012-05-04

Posts: 100

Re: [SOLVED] Thunderbird profile missing or inaccessible

Maybe a clue for someone - I can run Thunderbird/Firefox as another user.. in this case root
gksudo thunderbird
So it looks like problem with rights. If I delete .thunderbird folder, it could create another one after start. But it creates only folder .thunderbird and no file in it.. empty...

e@arch ~ $ l | grep thunderbird
drwx------  2 e    users     4096 Jan  2 22:17 .thunderbird

I don't know if the 0700 is the right permission. Can anyone check the permission on your installation? Thanks

5ulo

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2012-05-04

Posts: 100

Re: [SOLVED] Thunderbird profile missing or inaccessible

Okay, so I found what was going on.. .cache directory in my home directory was corrupted so I deleted it and voila.. all is going as it should. Sorry for bothering