232451 - Profile Manager doesn't show all the available profiles

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151000

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, defect)

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040128

Yesterday, I created a new profile (blah) to test a bug and I had no problem
with it. I recompiled Mozilla (I'm now using this version), removed the old
version (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040121),
installed the new version and started it. It took the default profile (lefevre).
But when I want to start a second copy, the Profile Manager shows only the
lefevre profile (and I can't use it since it is locked because of the first copy).
This is a regression, as the old Mozilla version showed both profiles lefevre
and blah.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. See above (but I haven't tried to recreate the profiles from scratch).
Actual Results:  
When starting a second copy, the Profile Manager shows "lefevre".

Expected Results:  
It should show both "lefevre" and "blah".

ay:~> ll .mozilla
total 104
-rw-r--r--    1 lefevre  lefevre     65629 2004-01-28 19:59:38 appreg
drwx------    3 lefevre  lefevre      4096 2004-01-27 20:35:34 blah/
drwxr-xr-x    3 lefevre  lefevre      4096 2002-03-04 03:39:54 lefevre/
-rw-r--r--    1 lefevre  lefevre     17925 2004-01-21 10:02:49 mozver.dat
-rw-------    1 lefevre  lefevre      2994 2004-01-28 20:04:13 pluginreg.dat

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

this can easily happen if you are running Mozilla when you create the second
profile.  when each copy of Mozilla exits, it writes out its copy of the
registry.  If you had Mozilla open when you created the second profile, then
when the first Mozilla exits, it will clobber the second profile's existence in
the registry.

this is actually an old problem and there is a bug filed on it.  somewhere...

Comment 2

[Vincent Lefevre]

OK, I shouldn't have restricted my search to recent bugs...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151000 ***