203733 - UI needed for breaking profile lock

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 151188

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, defect)

Description

[Dan Price]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030330 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030330 Phoenix/0.5


One of our users was substantially inconvenienced by a lock left in her
profile in her home directory, which is on a campus-wide NFS server.
This means that as she roams from machine to machine, she will use the
same profile in many places.

The problem she encountered was with a lock which referenced a host other
than the one she was using.

Without hunting through her profile directory for the lock, there
was no way to start up mozilla with her profile.  Mozilla seems to check
for invalid locks when on the local host, but when the lock is apparently
on another host, for example: lock -> 129.146.89.213:21056, you will have
problems.

This might seem to be an uncommon scenario, but in an office environment
which uses DHCP and dynamic IP addresses, it could be very likely if the
power goes out.  When hosts come back up, they might be assigned new
addresses.

The UI ought to do allow the user to break the lock if he/she is sure it
is safe to do so.  It might tell the user "The lock appears to be for
process ID <xxxxx> on host <yyyyyy>.  Please verify that it isn't in use.
Click "Break Lock" if mozilla should proceed."  or some such.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start mozilla or phoenix on system A
2. kill -9 the process.  Verify that it has left a 'lock' symlink
   in your profile
3. Go to system B.  Try to start phoenix.
4. The profile manager should appear; try to use the profile.
5. It will tell you that the profile is in use.

Comment 1

[Dan Price]

Attachment: screenshot of nav 4.x behavior in this case

This is something that NN4.7x got right, as per the screenshot I'm attaching.

Comment 2

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151188 ***

Comment 3

[Grace Bush]

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