301529 - Sometimes fail to reclaim a profile lock on Linux

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151188

(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, defect)

Description

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

It's possible a user to reboot their machine and then discover that Firefox
won't start because their profile appears to be locked. This can happen when the
PID in the lockfile gets assigned to a process on startup, so that Firefox sees
there is process alive and assume's it's holding the lock. This is really bad.

We need a way to detect whether the process is really a Firefox instance,
preferably the Firefox instance that obtained the lock in the first place.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

yup

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