304935 - After updating Firefox from "Check for Updates" and after successful updates, previous profiles doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 304874

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[bakuryu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050815 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050815 Firefox/1.0+

After successful updates and then when restarting Firefox it just can't use the
previous profiles. Every time profile manager appears and then I click on an
previous profile it says 

"Cannot start xxxxx. The profile is in use. Close instances ............ "
I updated with version 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050815
Firefox/1.0+

and updated to version : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.9a) Gecko/20050816 Firefox/1.0+

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Help->Check for updates
2. Successful update. Restart Firefox
3. Firefox is started with a default profile. 
4. Close Firefox and start with -p switch, opening profile manager.
5. select any previous profile and click Start

Actual Results:  
Cannot start profile xxxx. Profile is in use. Close all instances of Deer Park
Or select another profile

Expected Results:  
Started with the previous profile

With the new trunk builds as from bug 304874 the themes and extensions are not
working. And my previous profiles had themes and extension installed on them. 

However when I deleted the current FF folder and replaced it with a copy of the
branch build of 15th Aug, the one I am currently using, I still got the same ERROR.

The only resolution I found was to copy all contents of my previous profile.
Then create a new profile. Replace the old profile files in this new one and
then start the new profile, to bring things back to normal

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050817
Firefox/1.6a1

(Today's build using standard methods)

I am seeing something very similar - the only profiles not declaring themselves
"in use" are ones with no spaces in the profile names.

Neither can I install extensions ...

Comment 2

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050817
Firefox/1.6a1

My profiles.ini now contains bogus filenames, and a fox compiled 5 days
ago which used to work, fails in a similar way.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050816
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005081620

WFM with profile on the default location (it's only possible to update to trunk
where extensions don't work currently).

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

See bug 304874 comment 25

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This could well be more fallout from bug 299992 and if so the patch coming for
bug 304874 may well fix it.
Changing to all OS since Mac and Windows users have confirmed.

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 304874 ***