Closed Bug 14185 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Mozilla keeps asking me to create a new profile

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect, P3)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Profile: BackEnd
Platform:
PowerPC
Mac System 8.5
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 14160

People

(Reporter: mikepinkerton, Assigned: selmer)

Details

It's sporadic, but it seems that after i create a new profile (which crashes,
btw), I can run one or two times and then i get the profile manager again when I
launch.
I saw some strange behavior today (also see other bug 14160 that Jay logged)on
jimmylee's Mac-He was trying to launch apprunner with a 5.0 profile and got the
Create Profile Wizard.

I was able to launch with yesterday's 5.0 profile, but when I tested creating a
new profile I crashed. My mozregistry file was described as a decode-10 document
after the crash and reboot.
Mike, can you think of anything special that happened between the working and
not working state?
nope. i'm trying to figure out what is going on, but i can't find any one thing
that causes the profile manager to appear again. it's not the crashing of the
app, it's not the proper quitting of the app, it's not any settings i'm changing.
i'm stumped. just something is getting tweaked out somewhere....somehow.
I noticed that the profile manager is creating lots of horked registry filenames
in my prefs folder:

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Mozilla RegistryþÑý

and a new one appears every time i crash. maybe it runs the next time because the
garbage it is appending is the same (from the same point in memory), and when
that memory gets changed, the garbage is different so it creates a new file!
*** Bug 14216 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Ignore previous comment.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14160 ***
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: Profile Manager → Profile Manager BackEnd
Moving all Profile Manager bugs to new Profile Manager Backend component.
Profile Manager component to be deleted.
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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