264793 - system crash leaves profile inaccessible

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 151188

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Geoffrey Leach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040808 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040808 Firefox/0.9.3

I'm using the default profile.
Following a system crash (power failure) Firefox finds the default profile in
use and insists that I create another.  Removing the "lock" symlink did not
help, nor did rebooting.

I'd like to get my original profile back, as it has all of the loaded extensions.

Reloading ~/.mozilla from backup has the same problem, as the backup was created
with FF in use.


Suggestion for an extension: allow the profile manager to override the lock.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.crash the system with ff in use
2.restart system 
3.restart ff

Actual Results:  
ff starts with profile manager, reports default profil in use.

Expected Results:  
give me the option to override the lock.

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

May be a dup of Bug 151188

Comment 2

[Geoffrey Leach]

It is indeed a dup of 151188

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151188 ***