246077 - Mozilla Cannot use the profile because its in use.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 151188

(SeaMonkey :: Startup & Profiles, defect)

Description

[tvuong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: 1.6

Unable to bring up certain profiles, due to the error below. Although, have 
shutdown and reboot machine to get a fresh and clean start. 

"Mozilla cannot use the profile "test1" because it in in use. Please choose 
another profile pr creat a new one"

The profile "test1" at one point was working, until now.
One would think, after shutdown and cleaned up gracefully all processes, the 
above error should not appear.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bring up gnopernicus
2. Enable speech only
3. bring up mozilla
4. select Manage Profile -> create profile
5. creat about 3 or more profiles
6. Exit MOzilla, and bring up Mozilla again
7. select one of the profile just created.

You should get this error msg.

Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

Lock files are created at ~/.mozilla/$profile/$salt/lock in LInux.
Also if you are trying to start mozilla while another mozilla is running use the
command `mozilla -remote "openurl($URL)"`. See
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html for more info.

Comment 2

[jan newmarch]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Lock files are created at ~/.mozilla/$profile/$salt/lock in LInux.

Having to MANUALLY remove the lock file (an entirely non-intuitive process)
after a system crash is a BUG. OpenOffice for example says: "It's in use - do
you want to continue anyway?" Why can't mozilla do the same?

Comment 3

[Jesiah S]

Dupe of bug 151188 via bug 193136

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