157608 - Mozilla doesn't recover correctly from a crash

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 153562

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Renaud Manus]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020713
BuildID:    2002071322

If Mozilla crashes (for whatever reason) then Mozilla can't open the profile
directory located under ~/.mozilla/[profile_name] and don't start.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Every time when Mozilla crashes.
I might be able to find a way to reproduce it on demand if necessary (I mean to
reproduce the crash that leads to the issue).

Expected Results:  Mozilla should use the same profile directory instead of
trying to use an inexistent one.

The bug is not related to this particular build but I don't think I experienced
it prior to 1.0

The workaround that I use is:

!! rmanus/r35nieqm.slt : old profile directory
!! rmanus/9jgh1e9l.slt : new profile directory

1. mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla_tmp
2. Start Mozilla to create a new profile directory (rmanus/9jgh1e9l.slt)
3. mv ~/.mozilla_tmp/rmanus/r35nieqm.slt ~/.mozilla/rmanus
4. rm ~/.mozilla/rmanus/9jgh1e9l.slt
5. mv ~/.mozilla/rmanus/r35nieqm.slt ~/.mozilla/rmanus/9jgh1e9l.slt

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153562 ***