[Bug 251630] [NEW] non intuitive messages with broken profiles

[Henri MICHEL]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird

Setup
====
 you have a profile referring to a non existing directory (for example if your ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini is as follows:
------------------------------8<-------------------------------
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=3yt5q2x7.default
Default=1

[Profile1]
Name=foobar
IsRelative=1
Path=35l08sbb.nosuchdir
------------------------------8<-------------------------------

And ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/35l08sbb.nosuchdir does not exist

Unexpected behavior 1
==============
If you start thunderbird with:
   $ thunderbird -P foobar
you will get the following warning message window:

>>Thunderbird is already running,but is not responding. To open a new window,you must first
>> close the existing Thunderbird process,or restart your system.
>>                                                    OK

Unexpected behavior 2
==============
If you start thunderbird with:
   $ thunderbird -ProfileManager
and explicitely ask for profile "foobar"
You will get the following warning message window:

>>      Thunderbird cannot use the profile "foobar" because it is in use.
>>       To continue,close the running instance of Thunderbird or choose a different profile.
>>                                   OK

Suggestion
=======
It would be better to say that the directory does not exist !!
This is particularly frustrating, if you happen to have a profile whose directory ends with the space. No idea how the guy who reported the problem to me produced a directory ending with a space but I observed it.

** Affects: mozilla-thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: profilemanager

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non intuitive messages with broken profiles
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251630
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