On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 11:19 -0500, Robert McBroom via users wrote:
Power failure is what left Thunderbird in a state. The lock was in
the
".thunderbird" tree as a link to a nonexistent file
"192.168.1.218:+7103". Deleting the entry enabled Thunderbird to start.
Software really ought to be more robust than this. Power failures do
happen, people shouldn't be expected to be running a UPS, and software
does crash. A program ought to be able to detect a stale lock file
still remaining and handle it itself.
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