Closed Bug 335345 Opened 19 years ago Closed 15 years ago

loading failed with message process already running

Categories

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Startup and Profile System
Version:
1.8.0 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: juhakarvonen, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060115 K-Meleon/1.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fi; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1 When I tried to load Firefox, an error message stated that Firefox is already running. However, Firefox wasn't in the Windows process listings, so it wasn't running. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Wasn't able to reproduce. 2. 3. This was some kind of a profile-related problem. A quick & dirty fix: destroy (after backup) your local Firefox profile and the program loads normally.
When you destroyed the profile, did you update or remove profiles.ini ? That file describes where the profiles can be found. The misleading error message is bug 278860.
*** Bug 335463 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Version: unspecified → 1.5.0.x Branch
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
no response to comment 1 incomplete?
I am running firefox-3.6a1pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe 07-Apr-2009 11:31 I get this problem/message ALWAYS when I start Firefox, after I just closed it. but when I wait some seconds between closing and reopening it is fine for me.
I get the same in recent months, but it did not happen in the past. It seems that firefox sometimes is slow, or very slow, to close with high (50%) cpu usage. Slow could be ten seconds, very slow could be several minutes to never. Usually I use task manager to kill the process. The last time I just closed the error message window and tried again. It may be that the message is issued too soon. There used to be a similar problem with xp reporting that a network drive was unavailable, when the drive was still starting and was available on retry.
I have this problem with Firefox 3.6 with a large profile on a slow computer. (I'm not really surprised by this though and I don't mind since it's more a problem of the computer than of Firefox in my opinion;)
(In reply to comment #3) > no response to comment 1 > incomplete? Yes
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.