On or about 10/29/2009 6:50 PM, BeeNeR typed the following: > Now that it's solved here's what the problem was. > > I had installed a pre-release of SM2 which created a file named > 'profile.ini' with a reference to the SM1.1.x profile in the default > directory. ie: > C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application > Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\profile.ini > > > I was not happy with this pre-release of SM2 so I uninstalled it. > > Somewhere along the line I created a new profile form SM1.1.x. The SM2 > profile.ini file still referenced the old 1.1.x profile. > > That's why my original installation of the released version of 2.0 had > old information on startup. > > In trouble shooting I removed the all the old 1.1.x profiles. This now > meant that the 2.0 profile.ini which was in the 1.1.18 default directoy > was still there. But it was now pointing to an non-existant profile. > > This, I assume, was causing the next problem of SM2 Mail not starting up > and giving an error message of 'SeaMonkey is already running, but is not > responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing > SeaMonkey porcess, or restart you system" and then hanging requiring a > reboot. > > (NOTE TO PROGRAMMERS: This should be investigated. The proper response > should have been "Missing file: <whatever profile.ini was pointing at>" > and allowing the startup to be aborted rather than hanging and waiting > for a reboot). > > I hope this information will help the next person. > >
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