Thunderbird freezes my system

[coolrat33]

I'm having a long struggle with Thunderbird.

A while ago, my computer experienced a power failure.
When I booted it back up, Thunderbird would not run.

At first I thought this was a stale lock. But after deleting the lock, Thunderbird still did not work.

I removed and purged Thunderbird using this:

apt-get remove --purge thunderbird  apt-get clean

I also deleted these configuration files for Thunderbird ...
/usr/lib/thunderbird/components
/usr/lib/thunderbird
/usr/share/thunderbird/chrome
/usr/share/thunderbird
/etc/thunderbird/profile

Then thinking that everything was ready, I reinstalled Thunderbird.
But when I tried to run it from TERMINAL, it did not start and I received this message:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjkd/jre/lib/amd64/icedteaplugin.so [libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory]

How can I resolve this? I found some postings online
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r214760 ... va-Firefox

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/574302

But I don't understand the technical aspects of this and want to avoid massively mess up my system. Thanks in advance for your advice!

After typing
update-alternatives --config java

Terminal reported:
Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java 1061 auto mode
1 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java 1061 manual mode
2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java 63 manual mode

The option 0 (auto mode) was selected.
I tried to run Thunderbird, but it locked up my system. Using CRL+ ESC, the System Activity monitor showed that the several applications including Thunderbird were in "disk sleep". The system would not respond at all and I rebooted using RIESUB.

I then changed the status to "1" manual mode.
The result was the same when trying to run Thunderbird from Terminal or from the menu link. It locked up my system with the same symptoms as before.

I should mention too that my Thunderbird profile is not in the standard folder. I modified the .thunderbird/profile.ini to point to the location of my profile here:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=0
Path=/home/ray/Ray_Master_Files /A_New_Comp_Essentials_(no_encryption)/ThunderBirdMail_CURRENT/qdksmqbl.default

Any ideas on how to solve this issue?

[The Liquidator]

Re: Thunderbird freezes my system

Have you tried renaming your existing profile so that on launch a new one is created?

That has been known to fix many a program launch issue.

You can then reconstruct by moving your profile contents into the newly-created default profile.

HTH