Re: How to avoid 'cannot use profile' error?

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How to avoid 'cannot use profile' error?
\ news.mozilla.org (11 Oct 2007)
. \ Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo (11 Oct 2007)
. . \ Tetsuji Rai (12 Oct 2007)
. . \ Tetsuji Rai (12 Oct 2007)

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Subject:	Re: How to avoid 'cannot use profile' error?
Group:	Mozilla-general
From:	Tetsuji Rai
Date:	12 Oct 2007

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Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
> news.mozilla.org wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am using seamonkey 1.1.4 on Linux. Today it accidentally froze and I
>> killed it with xkill. Since then I cannot use that profile; "cannot use
>> the profile tetsuji because it is in use..blah blah".
>>
>> In older mozilla, I deleted ~/.mozilla/tetsuji/(random string)/lock
>> dummy symlink and mozilla worked fine, but this trick doesn't work with
>> this version. How can I restore the profile?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> -Tetsuji Rai
>
> with the program closed, in the profile, look for a file called
> parent.lock, or .parentlock, or lock.parent, or .lockparent, or
> something similar. Once found, delete it. Restart the program. Did it
> work?
>
Thank you! I found .parentlock, but before that, I had solved it by
using daily backup files (I backup the whole home directory daily).
Next time I will try it.

Regards,

- -Tetsuji

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