305197 - Profile not found/"in use" if its path contains spaces

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 304874

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[John Beluga]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050816 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050816 Firefox/1.6a1

If the profile's path in profile.ini contains spaces, current nightlies fail to
find it with the confusing error message described in bug #278860 ("Firefox
already running").

My profiles.ini on a german XP Pro looked like this:

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=trunk
IsRelative=0
Path=c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\user\Anwendungsdaten\Firefox\Profiles\whatever
Default=1

Changing the Path= statement to contain only Windows' 8.3 short name restored
normal behaviour:
Path=c:\Dokume~1\user\Anwendungsdaten\Firefox\Profiles\whatever

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a profile within a directory whose path contains a space.
2. Start Firefox with that profile

Actual Results:  
One gets the ominous "Firefox already running" message (bug #278860).

Expected Results:  
Profile should be found and Firefox should be starting as usual.

This still worked with Jul 19th's nightly.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is a not-obvious dup of bug 304874

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

Comment 2

[John Beluga]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This is a not-obvious dup of bug 304874
> 

If #304874 is fixed why does the error occur on today's nightly?