Jonathan N. Little wrote:
In Windows the file is parent.lock
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use>
But in that situation you normally get a "SeaMonkey is already
running..." dialog. If OP gets no response at all it could be the
executable itself is either damaged, moved, or missing. Maybe the
shortcut is corrupted. Or a bad extension or plugin.
Could try launching in safemode:
seamonkey.exe -safe-mode
But if the executable is corrupted it might be easier just to
uninstall SeaMonkey and then reinstall it. It would fix all the above
issues with exception of a bad extension. Uninstalling SeaMonkey does
NOT remove your profile.
If those steps don't work, I'm inclined to believe that
uninstall/reinstall won't do anything for you, unless there's indication
that there's corruption to the program binaries or related registry
entries. In versions of Windows later than XP, that's unusual.
I suspect that there's corruption to your profile. Safe Mode is a good
first step, and I have seen it happen where something misbehaving goes
away with a one-time start in Safe Mode, followed by a normal restart.
And of course, Safe Mode is a way of quickly disabling your extensions,
and resetting your prefs to default settings.
However, it's possible that there's something wrong in the profile
that's beyond the ability of Safe Mode to fix. If that's the case, the
way of getting things back to all defaults is to create a new user
profile:
seamonkey.exe -profilemanager
With Seamonkey, it's a little more effort to transition to a new profile
than it is with Firefox, because of the considerations for the mail
client. Beyond preference settings and extensions, most of what it takes
in a browser is moving your bookmarks.
For email, if If you're using IMAP, it's not that big of a deal,
although you do have to move your contacts list. However, if you are
using POP, then you also have to move your mail stores. And if you're
making more extensive use of the mail/news client (including rules,
news, etc.) those are additional things to account for.
To do this, you don't have to disturb your existing profile, and it's
not a problem to have multiple profiles defined. I believe that the
design intent for multiple profiles (as with Windows and multiple user
IDs) is to allow more than one person to share the machine, with some
measure of privacy, and not getting in each other's way.
However, a different use of profiles can be for one user that has need
for different configuration sets and preferences. In normal usage,
that's probably unusual, but it can be really useful for
troubleshooting. For me personally, on all my Mozilla apps (Seamonkey,
Firefox and Thunderbird), I keep an extra profile called "Bare metal",
where nearly all the config settings are default. That way, if
something is isn't behaving in my regular profile, I can switch over to
the bare metal one, and see how things behave with default settings. I
can't remember a time when I've been able to replicate a problem in a
profile with default settings.
Smith
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