Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 162460
When Thunderbird or the OS crashes the lock file is left preventing thunderbird from starting
Last modified: 2016-06-07 18:45:06 EDT
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
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).