160402 - profile manager too aggressive in maintaining identities over multiple instances of Mozilla

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 135137

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, defect)

Description

[Levente Jakab]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020717
BuildID:    2002071722

Misfeature, not a bug, in my opinion.  Manifests itself exactly under the same
circumstances as Netscape 4.7's "I have detected a lock file...."  However, far
more aggressive, in that it absolutely refuses to share the same profile between
2 instances.  In order to force the 2nd to work, I can either close the first,
or blitz the profile and create a new one.  (I use only one, the "default
profile", I have to keep recreating it often.)  When I do this, the new instance
works fine.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log into your account, load Mozilla.
2. Load *another* instance of Mozilla.

Actual Results:  Second Mozilla detects that first is running, and using the
"default profile".  I am forced to blitz the profile, and create a new one, and
then both Mozillae work.

Expected Results:  two Mozillae should coexist peacefully.

Not sure how the first Mozilla handles it.  Sometimes it continues to work fine,
other times it dies - it appears to be working fine, except any and all URLs I
try end up invalid.  Not sure if the two bugs are related - the first is
guaranteed reproducable, the second is very flaky.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

dupe of "Profile data cannot be shared by multiple running instances."

Mozilla prevents you from running two instances of the same profile BECAUSE of
the bad things that happen.

a more practical solution to your problem is bug 122698

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135137 ***

Comment 2

[K'Trina Medina]

Verified as a dupe of bug 135137