On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:55:06AM -0500, Jason Dorje Short wrote: > Eric Dorland wrote: > >reassign 324791 firefox > >thanks > > > >* Jason Dorje Short ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>Package: mozilla-firefox > >>Version: 1.0.6-3 > >>Severity: normal > >> > >> > >>Firefox crashed (actually my power went out and the whole system went > >>down in > >>an instant). When I restarted it, it refused to use my default profile. > >>Naturally the lock file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/lock was still > >>there; > >>removing this fixed the problem. This lockfile pointed to 127.0.0.1:5371 > >>but > >>there was no such process running. (After I removed the lock and > >>restarted, > >>the new lock pointed to 5543; `ps -p 5543` showed that this was indeed > >>firefox.) I think I've seen this behavior before but I can't be certain. > >> > >>If I kill firefox manually (killall -SEGV firefox-bin) there is no > >>problem. > >>Only if there's a computer restart does the problem show up (I haven't > >>tried killing the process and then restarting the computer before bringing > >>firefox back up; that might show the same symptoms). > > > > > >I'm not sure what the bug is here. This is a common problem with lock > >files. > > Common but both solvable and poorly handled. > > The common solution is for the lock to include the PID of the locking > process, so that when acquiring the lock it's possible to check for > stale locks. > > The problem is handled poorly because there is no way to fix it! Unless > you go in and delete the lock file by hand, it will never go away. The > typical user will then see the "Pick profile" screen every time they log > in and will be unable to return to their default profile. What is the expected (desired?) behaviour? Check the indicated PID, and if it is not a firefox process, remove the lock automatically? (Could be implemented on linux by checking /proc/$pid/exe symlink).
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