857606 - Profile argument is ignored when using mozrunner to launch B2G desktop client

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Testing :: Mozbase, defect)

Description

[Dave Hunt [:davehunt] [he/him] ⌚BST]

It appears the default profile is being used when specifying a custom profile and the B2G.app or b2g path: 

$ mozrunner --binary=/Users/dhunt/Desktop/mozilla-b2g18/B2G.app --profile=/Users/dhunt/Desktop/mozilla-b2g18/B2G.app/Contents/MacOS/gaia/profile2
Starting: /Users/dhunt/Desktop/mozilla-b2g18/B2G.app/Contents/MacOS/b2g -profile /Users/dhunt/Desktop/mozilla-b2g18/B2G.app/Contents/MacOS/gaia/profile2
Starting b2g-bin
Running: /Users/dhunt/Desktop/mozilla-b2g18/B2G.app/Contents/MacOS/b2g-bin -profile /Users/dhunt/Desktop/mozilla-b2g18/B2G.app/Contents/MacOS/gaia/profile

Note that the profile2 was replaced with profile. This does however work if specifying the b2g-bin path directly:

$ mozrunner --binary=/Users/dhunt/Desktop/mozilla-b2g18/B2G.app/Contents/MacOS/b2g-bin --profile=/Users/dhunt/Desktop/mozilla-b2g18/B2G.app/Contents/MacOS/gaia/profile2
Starting: /Users/dhunt/Desktop/mozilla-b2g18/B2G.app/Contents/MacOS/b2g-bin -profile /Users/dhunt/Desktop/mozilla-b2g18/B2G.app/Contents/MacOS/gaia/profile2

Comment 1

[Jeff Hammel]

not really sure if I understand this; Bueller?

Comment 2

[Dave Hunt [:davehunt] [he/him] ⌚BST]

It may end up being a B2G desktop client issue, but I want to launch the application with a specific profile. At the moment the only way I can do that is by specifying the binary as the full path to b2g-bin. If I specify the B2G.app or b2g path then the profile argument is being disregarded. I hope that makes more sense. :)

Comment 3

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

This is a limitation of the B2G desktop build.  The 'b2g' (or B2G.app) binary is hardcoded (by the build itself) to launch b2g-bin with the bundled profile.  If you want to specify your own profile, the only way to do this is to directly launch b2g-bin instead.

B2G desktop builds without a bundled profile do not have a b2g-bin binary, and in those, launching the b2g binary with the -profile argument works as expected.

This isn't a mozrunner bug, but, we could add a B2GDesktopRunner subclass in mozrunner that would automatically handle this.

Comment 4

[Dave Hunt [:davehunt] [he/him] ⌚BST]

Sounds like it would be a good enhancement then, but this isn't blocking as we can just specify the full path to the b2g-bin when a bundled profile is included.

Comment 5

[Dave Hunt [:davehunt] [he/him] ⌚BST]

No longer blocking bug 857622 as there's a suitable workaround.

Comment 6

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

Mass closing bugs with no activity in 2+ years. If this bug is important to you, please re-open.