161092 - profile directory name can sometimes get corrupted

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Matt Behrens]

This is a real weird one.  On Solaris 9 (SPARC), using Mozilla 1.1b compiled
from source, occasionally I will fire up Mozilla and it will claim my profile
can't be found.  The profile does actually still exist and seems intact.

I decided to truss it and see what was going on:

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resolvepath("/usr/lib/iconv/UCS-2%8859-1.so", "/usr/lib/iconv/UCS-2%8859-1.so", 
1023) = 30
memcntl(0xFE3C0000, 708, MC_ADVISE, MADV_WILLNEED, 0, 0) = 0
close(11)                                       = 0
open("/home/b14741/src/mozilla/dist/bin/libc.so.1", O_RDONLY) Err#2 ENOENT
open("/home/b14741/src/mozilla/dist/bin/components/libc.so.1", O_RDONLY) Err#2 E
NOENT
open("/usr/sfw/lib/libc.so.1", O_RDONLY)        Err#2 ENOENT
open("/opt/gnome-1.4/lib/libc.so.1", O_RDONLY)  Err#2 ENOENT
open("/opt/sfw/lib/libc.so.1", O_RDONLY)        Err#2 ENOENT
open("/usr/lib/libc.so.1", O_RDONLY)            = 11
fstat(11, 0xFFBFD664)                           = 0
close(11)                                       = 0
munmap(0xFE930000, 8192)                        = 0
access("/home/b14741/.mozilla/default/rj54472e.sl", 0) Err#2 ENOENT

The *real* name of the profile is rj54472e.slt.  Note the 't'.  I was able to
start and am currently using Mozilla after symlinking rj54472e.slt to
rj54472e.sl.  I don't know if it's going to get worse, but hey, this works for
now.  Just glad I'm using IMAP for a mail store in case it does get worse. :-)

As far as reproducibility goes, I am not entirely sure what causes it, but I do
know that when I was having some window manager issues and the wm would core,
dropping all my clients on the floor, I'd come back to mozilla and have this
problem.

Comment 1

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

Can you update your tree and try again? See bug 153562, recently fixed, which I
think is this issue. Read the comments of that bug. While the end result was not
a crash for you, the truncation of the profile name is what makes me think dup.

Comment 2

[Matt Behrens]

I have been running nightlies for a little while now and haven't seen this yet.
 Marking WFM unless someday it happens again :-)

Comment 3

[K'Trina Medina]

This does sound like a dupe of bug 153562 which was already verified/fixed.
Reporter, please reopen if this problem still occurs on recent builds.