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Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade

From Jape Person <japers@comcast.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade
Date 2017-08-12 06:00 +0200
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On 08/11/2017 06:27 PM, Javier Barroso wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
>> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> On 2017-08-10 10:24 -0400, Jape Person wrote:
>>
>>>> After this upgrade
>>>>
>>>> thunderbird:amd64 (1:52.2.1-4, 1:52.2.1-4+b1)
>>>>
>>>> Thunderbird in Cinnamon DE is almost completely useless because
>>>> portions of its windows / text / toolbars don't repaint until the
>>>> window is resized. Is anyone else seeing this?
>>
>>> Yes, see https://bugs.debian.org/871629.
>>
>> Confirmation: Rebuilding 1:52.2.1-4 with gcc-6/g++-6 as the compiler
>> fixes the problem.
> 
> You can also download thunderbird and its addons from
> http://snapshot.debian.org/package/icedove/1%3A52.2.1-4/, selecting
> your architecture
> 
> See what packages have you installed from icedove them:
> 
>   aptitude search '?and(?source-package(icedove),?installed)'
> 
> Download to Download/icedove and install with apt install
> ./Download/icedove/*.deb
> 
> Regards
> 
> 

I was just getting frustrated enough to do the recompile. Ugh. I'm old, 
have poor eyesight, and was not anxious to do that while recovering from 
pneumonia.

I'll give it a shot.

Thank you much for the reminder. I used to love to do things the hard 
way, but that's not my thing any more. Just spent today doing a system 
installation and configuration for a system that lost a solid state drive.

JP

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Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-10 16:30 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-08-10 16:50 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-11 15:20 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-08-11 21:50 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Javier Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com> - 2017-08-12 00:30 +0200
        Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-12 06:00 +0200
          Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Javier Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com> - 2017-08-12 13:40 +0200
            Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-08-12 21:30 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-08-10 17:10 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-08-10 18:10 +0200
    Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-10 18:30 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2017-08-10 19:30 +0200
        Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-10 20:40 +0200
          Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2017-08-10 22:40 +0200
            Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-11 07:50 +0200
          Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-11 07:40 +0200
            Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2017-08-11 08:00 +0200
              Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-11 16:50 +0200
                Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-08-11 17:00 +0200
                Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-11 17:20 +0200
                Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-08-11 21:00 +0200
                Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-12 01:20 +0200
                Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2017-08-11 21:10 +0200

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