189892 - Browser doesn't revalidate lock file in user-profile

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 189891

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Wilfried Goesgens]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

if mozilla or the session or the whole machine crashes, there remains a
lock-file in the mozilla profile, preventing it from being used twice. Mozilla
should be able to detect, if the other mozilla the lock file belongs to, is
still running.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start mozilla
2.kill it with SIGKILL
3.try to restart it

Actual Results:  
mozilla shows the profile selection dialog and won't use the profile anymore

Expected Results:  
mozilla should detect the other mozilla has gone away and remove the lock-file
by itself.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189891 ***