On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:44:27 +1000, Errol Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>Mike wrote: >> Norvin wrote: >>> JohnW-Mpls wrote: >>>> I just had a scare - could not run Seamonkey. Every time I tried, even >>>> right after a cold boot, I got a message like: "Seamonkey is already >>>> running. You need to shut it down or restart your machine". But, as >>>> though SM was a ghost, I had no place to go to shut it down. >>>> >>>> I spend a bit of time rebooting, Virus scanning, and even a full XP >>>> partition restore but the result was always the same. I started to >>>> prepare >>>> for a HD reformatting by saving some current files but when I went to >>>> save >>>> my SM profile, I could not find its whole directory - it had >>>> disappeared. >>>> >>>> I restored the whole profile directory from a backup and bang - SM is >>>> alive >>>> and well. I have no idea why or how the profile got deleted. >>>> >>>> My point: if you get an "SM already running" message, it may be a >>>> profile >>>> problem. >>>> >>>> >>> John, after power up and before any operation, check 'task manager' and >>> see if the SM process is running. >> >> And correct the error detection in SM to respond with No Profile found >> when it's missing, rather than an error message that probably couldn't >> send someone in a more incorrect direction. > >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278860 > >It's only a 6 year old bug... Thanks, good to know that - justifies my actions as being logical. -- JohnW-Mpls _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
