226598 - doesn't start with a profile if the system crashed (blank-out) and this profile was in use

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151188

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[israel olalla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3

I was using my profile "iolalla" and the system crashed (blank-out) when the
electricity came back mozilla didn't start cause the profile was in use, but the
problem was with some lock file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start a session with a profile 
2. stop suddenly the computer with mozilla running 
2. restart the computer 
3. try to start a session with the same profile

Actual Results:  
Can't start mozilla with this profile, have to delete the lock file.

Expected Results:  
One solution could be to use other system instead of lock files or, to update
some info in the lock file or to say to the user where is the lock file to make
it easier to delete it.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is already filed (with several duplicates).  Please find the original and
mark this duplicate...

Comment 2

[israel olalla]

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