Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:24:34 +0900 From: Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> To: Richard Childers <childers@redwoodhodling.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 14.2; Thunderbird 128.6; Chromium, Iridium, etc Message-ID: <20250111132434.6d0e06c9f3b39e7a52e8f354@dec.sakura.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <9d21e261-e943-44df-8f84-8c2cb3ca81f8@redwoodhodling.com> References: <9d21e261-e943-44df-8f84-8c2cb3ca81f8@redwoodhodling.com>
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 02:17:20 +0000 Richard Childers <childers@redwoodhodling.com> wrote: > Dear folks, > > > I just upgraded from 13.3 to 14.2. Maybe I missed the memo; but moving > home directories from /usr/home back to /home broke Thunderbird, it > couldn't find my folders. > > > (When I say 'upgrade', I mean 'install an up-to-date version of FreeBSD > on a different laptop, install up-to-date applications, rsync my home > directory to the new install, then make the jump'. Not freebsd-update(8).) > > > The fix is to edit these two text files: > > > /home/LOGIN/.thunderbird/????????.default/folderCache.json > > /home/LOGIN/.thunderbird/????????.default/prefs.js > > > ... where '????????' represents 8 > Thunderbird-assigned-at-the-time-of-account-creation random ASCII > characters that seem to represent a unique ID. > > > If you've done this a few times your files may be quite old and contain > references to accounts that you no longer use but a global > search-and-replace should not damage these definitions either as if they > still exist their paths will need to be updated as well, and if the > folders no longer exist then you may safely engage in some housekeeping > and delete those other lines. > > > Here's hoping it helps those of us with not much hair to spare to avoid > ripping out what is left, in frustration, after an upgrade. > > > The output from 'pkg add -y thunderbird' is pretty sparse - less then > ten lines. Not complaining but that might be a good place to put hints > for administrators overseeing the upgrade - it's not done until the > users can read and write email. > > > 'thunderbird --help' refers to something called a "Migration Manager" > but I could find no documentation on this from the command line; > Thunderbird has no online UNIX manual page, alas. > > > You may also find Chromium to be uncooperative; if it was running when > you did your rsync, then you will have to remove the following file > before it will start on the new machine: > > > % rm -f .config/chromium/SingletonLock > > > You may as well remove them all: > > > % rm -f .config/chromium/Singleton* > > > You might even want to do this: > > > % rm -f .config/*/Singleton* > > > ... that will fix Iridium and ungoogled-chromium, too. > > > Regards, > > > ~richard > > > ===== > > > More info: https://www.redwoodhodling.com/Exhibits/ > > See, also: https://www.redwoodlinux.com/RaspiLab/ > > See, also: > https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-innovative-raspberry-pi-classroom-project Is there a symlink /usr/home pointing to /home? If not, creating it could usually workaround the problem. As I disliked previous default (/usr/home), I habitally create /home as a directory (mount point) and created symlink /usr/home pointing to it manually on installation (not using installer, though) for copatibilities. *I've created a dedicated partition for /home before I've switched to Root on ZFS, and now creating a dedicated dataset for /home. So /home is a mountpoint anyway for me. -- Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
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