I have uninstalled and re-installed lightning 2.6.4 - and the options are there but are grayed out. It is not disabled. I have a combination of local and google calendars. Anyone know what is going on? I googled this and could not find anything, only way-old versions of both software...
Thanks
Posting this as an answer, as it might be something close to a solution. You mentioned this:
This looks to me like Thunderbird is corrupted. Could you try uninstalling and reinstalling Thunderbird?