110453 - -selectprofile hangs loading the default profile

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Colin Blake]

I am seeing something that might be related to bug #104281.
I have just one profile, named "default". If I start up Mozilla with
no args everything is fine:

$ @mozilla
Starting mozilla-bin...

[mozilla comes up with default profile]

If I start up using -p everything is fine:

$ @mozilla -p default
Starting mozilla-bin...
ProfileName : default

[mozilla comes up with default profile]

But if I start up using -selectprofile, and then select "default" from
the profile selection list (the only profile), it hangs:

$ @mozilla -selectprofile
Starting mozilla-bin...
ProfileManager : StartApprunner
profileName passed in: default

[mozilla hangs - no I/O - no CPU]

This is on OpenVMS (built like Linux), on an almost 0.9.6 build. But I
see identical behaviour on my 0.9.5 build.

Comment 1

[Colin Blake]

More info. If I create another profile then I can start mozilla with the new
profile using -selectprofile, but I still can't get mozilla to start with the
default profile.

Comment 2

[Colin Blake]

Unfortunately I can't reproduce this one my Linux system running 0.9.5. Sigh...

Comment 3

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

Can you repro it with the lastest nightly?

Comment 4

[Colin Blake]

I don't have any trunk builds at the moment, only 0.9.6 branch builds.

Why do you ask, has something changed on the trunk in the last few days which 
might have fixed this?

Comment 5

[Colin Blake]

I can no longer reproduce this problem, either in the released 0.9.6 or the 
released 0.9.7 versions. Marking WORKSFORME.

Comment 6

[K'Trina Medina]

Verified WFM. Per reporter, problem no longer exists on current builds.