235186 - Profile migration for NS4.x does not check whether the NS4.x profile is still in use

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: Migration, defect)

Description

[Roland Mainz]

Profile migration for NS4.x does not check whether the NS4.x profile is still in
use.

The profile migration code should check whether there is a "lock" file
(~/.netscape/lock ; which indicates that NS4.x is still running) or not before
trying the migration.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Download a mozilla tar.gz via NS4.x
2. Unpack Mozilla
% gunzip -c
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.6.tar.gz
| tar -xvf -
3. Run Mozilla (with no profile)
% mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla_disabled
% ./mozilla/mozilla
4. Select profile migration

Result:
Profile migration starts and converts the data from the NS4.x profile,
regardless whether NS4.x is still running or not (this may result in a data loss
when NS4.x mail is still active and fetching emails while the migration is
running (my "nsmail" folder has 1.4GB so migration will need some time... and
while that is running NS4.x may likely fetch the one or other email (every
15mins in my case))).

Expected result:
Profile migration should check for the "lock" file and abort the profile
migration if NS4.x is still running.

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

darin/bryner:
Who can look at the problem ?

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

with the recent work done to add profile migration features to firefox, this bug
might interest Ben.

Comment 3

[Steve Simms]

Marking bugs related to migrating 4.7 profiles as wontfix, as this is no longer supported.

If this bug isn't specific to 4.7, please reopen it.