183787 - Profile manager not showing profiles

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, defect)

Description

[Darwin Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0

This is a Windows 2000 system running in Active Directory. The user is a power
user on the system. When the user starts Mozilla it wants to create a new
profile everytime. I have tried uninstalling, cleaning the registery and
reinstalling the browser . I have also given the user admin right and
reinstalled the program using the users account. Her account will not display or
remember the profile.  The files for the profile are there but the profile
manager does not see them. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install mozilla 1.2.1 as admin on the system
2.Log on as the user create a profile using the profile manager.
3.close the browser and reopen it. Create the profile again.

Actual Results:  
The profile manager does not remember the profile. It is still broken I have no
clue what to do here.

Comment 1

[Grace Bush]

Darwin,  

Can you download and try this with a more recent build? Lots of changes since
8/23.  Thanks

Comment 2

[Michael R. Decker]

This problem is also coming up on the new RH Linux 1.4 final build.   If a
profile other than 'default' is created in a directory other than the default
.mozilla directory, the profile managerr does not remember the fact and wants to
create a new profile every time Mozilla launched.  

This is a very annoying bug, although it can be worked around.

Comment 3

[David G King]

*** Bug 231957 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[David G King]

From dup, this is also happening in Mozilla 1.6

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[John Griffiths]

Also happens in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050913
SeaMonkey/1.0a

Not only that, new profiles are not created and there is no profiles.ini file
written if one is supposed to be written like in Firefox.

Comment 7

[John Griffiths]

Forgot. The OS should be ALL since this is reported against Win 2k and I found
it in Linux.

Comment 8

[John Griffiths]

Got an email asking that I post how I resolved this. It has been almost two years, so I may not be remembering this correctly, but I think I renamed my profile directory and started with a fresh installation. Then I copied my bookmarks and stuff back to the new directory.

Or, I may have deleted one or more of the rdf or mfasl files, but I am not really sure of the extents anymore.

Sorry I can't be of further help.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Michael, still see this?

(reporter is gone)

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

David King writes: I did see this problem. But that was a long time ago and I don't remember how I fixed it.

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