Bug 162460

Summary:	When Thunderbird or the OS crashes the lock file is left preventing thunderbird from starting
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Xander D Harkness <harkness>
Component:	thunderbird	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	nobody
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description Xander D Harkness 2005-07-05 08:14:29 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Red Hat/1.0.4-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.4

Description of problem:
When the RHEL4 or thunderbird crashes it leaves a lock file that prevents thunderbird starting when the computer has been rebooted.

This is an annoyance for me as it happens a couple of times a week.

For average users it is unacceptable as they have insufficient knowledge to remove the lock file.  To have the expectation that the user must know how to delete a particular hidden file with a random path is a rotten excuse for poor coding.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
thunderbird-1.0.2-1.4.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open thunderbird.
2.Crash the OS either deliberately or wait for it to happen
3.Reboot and try to start Thunderbird.
  

Actual Results:  You receive a message stating you are already running thunderbird and you need to go away or re-enter all your settings again.

Expected Results:  Thunderbird should start normally.

Additional info:

The same bug is present in Firefox

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2007-05-16 13:34:14 UTC

Cannot reproduce with thunderbird-1.5.0.10-0.1.el4. (just to elaborate on step 2
-- command ":(){ :|:& };:" on bash command line worked nicely :-); see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forkbomb for more details).