[lug] Weirdness: openoffice / mozilla won't start

[Nate Duehr]

I've just noticed yesterday that if I launch RedHat's Mozilla on a RH
8.0 machine and then later a copy of Netscape 7 downloaded from Netscape
they both appear to share some files and the NS7 says my "profile is
already in use"... heh.

Cute bug.

-- 
Nate Duehr, WY0X  (AIM: BigNateCO)
nate at natetech.com


On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 21:35, John Karns wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Warren Sanders said:
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> > Ben Luey wrote:
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> > > Problem 2) When I run mozilla, I get a profile mananger dialog that lets
> > > me add / delete / modify the profiles. I have my normal profile setup but
> > > when I click on it and say run, nothing happens. Why mozilla even brings
> > > up the profile manager instead of a web-browser is beyond me.
> > >
> > > Any ideas? Are these problems related?
> >
> > Prob. 2 is probably due to an existing stray mozilla process.  Was a
> > Mozilla session running prior to this behavior?
> 
> My guess is that if more than one profile has been created, it
> unconditionally displays the dialog of choices - at least that is the way
> it's behaving on my system.  However in the case that there is another
> instance running under the same login id, it also dsiplays the dialog,
> even if only one profile exists, and doesn't allow using the same profile
> for two instances.