281711 - Mozilla doesn't launch properly with single-profile and / or disable-profilesharing

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[tqh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (BeOS; U; BeOS BePC; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050209
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (BeOS; U; BeOS BePC; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050209

Did a build of Mozilla, but it would fail to launch. It would just show the
splashscreen then quit. After tracking the problem to
nsAppStartup::DoProfileStartup I saw that it failed on nsCOMPtr profileMgr
(do_GetService(NS_PROFILE_CONTRACTID, &rv));

I had no Mozilla profile and I had the build flags for ac_add_options
--enable-single-profile and ac_add_options --disable-profilesharing

Rebuilding with these flags removed made the browser launch as expected. I'd say
this is a problem on all platforms, but it was detected on BeOS.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I'm not sure that the suite supports or should support --enable-single-profile
or --disable-profilesharing... those flags were meant for embedders, and are
also used by the new toolkit. Not all of our build flags are meant for
general-purpose use.

Comment 2

[robinkrout]

I read on other tech support sites that when the default profile failed to
launch from the start or launch execute file, to recreate a new profile.  It
does launch after that, but the user will lose their bookmarks, and the lanch is
still slow.

Comment 3

[tqh]

Closing according to comment 1.