[Users] Upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 and now cannot start claws-mail.

[Owen]

Hi

Did you get any error message when trying to start it? If so what were 
they as that is sure to give you a clue.



Owen



On 2022-09-27 10:53, Rolf Turner wrote:
> Further mystification:  when I try to start claws-mail from the command
> line, it still crashes.  But when I click on the claws-mail icon, it
> starts, no problema.  What mystifies me is that when I click on the
> "Properties" tab of the icon, it shows that the associated command is
> "claws-mail %u".  So why does "claws-mail" work when invoked by the
> icon/GUI, but not work when invoked directly from the command line?
> 
> This makes no sense at all to me, and I expect it won't make any sense
> to anyone else, so I'd probably better shut up about it.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf
> 
> P.S.  Just to explain --- the reason why I was using the command line
> at all was that initially (right after doing my upgrade) clicking on 
> the
> claws-mail icon just produced a spinning wheel of death, for a long
> while, and then nothing.  I resorted to the command line to try to get
> some error messages or diagnostics.