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Is this an automated reply? It doesn't seem like you actually read my message. I guess you saw "FreeBSD" and made assumptions about what I needed.

I have Thunderbird working just fine under FreeBSD. My problem is running it on an NFS mounted home folder.

Again, when I move my home folder to the local drive on the same system then everything works fine. The issue is NFS.

I checked the two links you sent. Both are totally irrelevant to my issue. Neither one mentions NFS.

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http://chmr.gov.ua/index.html https://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4067.pdf https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-crashes

I don't know what a "profile map" is and I can't find anything in a search. Do you mean the profile folder ".thunderbird"? That's in the user's home directory and is owned by them. In fact, if I remove that folder and start Thunderbird it re-creates it owned by the user. It still doesn't work though.

Everything except the home folder is on the local drive so is accessible by root if that matters.

You say "The root user can always write to any file, so to make a file or directory writable only to root you make it non-writable by user, group, and others." In fact, the files are all owned by the user so are accessible by them but due to NFS are NOT available to root. Thunderbird is not a setuid root program though so I don't think that that matters unless there are some subsidiary programs that are. A quick check doesn't find any.

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We have installed no extensions or add-ons.

This is running on FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE.

I have deleted and reinstalled a few times.

Firefox is fine.

No error messages. Things just don't work. There is no menu bar and F10 does not bring it in. Right click on the tab bar and all you get is the customize link which doesn't do anything.

Move the home folder off NFS and everything works fine.

Thunderbird.

People - please stop telling me how to install Thunderbird. I am way past that. You have to actually read the thread before answering.

I wrote my first computer program in 1968. I hope that explains why I sound old and grumpy for being treated like a newbie.

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Sorry, I said FreeBSD at the very start. FreeBSD is Unix.

I am having a very hard time understanding you. I suppose it is a language issue.

I don't think I ever mentioned a "map". What is it supposed to map?

I don't know the term "profile folder" but I assume that you mean the folder called ".thunderbird" that holds the profile settings. I am just trying to make sure that we are using the same terminology.

All I am trying to figure out is why Thunderbird works when my home folder is on the local drive and why it does not when it is on the NFS mounted drive. In both cases I am using the exact same operating system, the same machine and the same programs. The programs and libraries are all on the local drive.

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Another piece of information - if I create a folder on the local drive and symlink .thunderbird to it then it all works fine. That seems to narrow it down to activity in that folder only.

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