Comment 3 for bug 123917

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 05:58:30AM -0000, Mitch Golden wrote:
> What it seems to be doing is not creating a profile directory in the
> .mozilla/firefox directory. It may be creating a file instead. At any
> rate, if I manually create a directory (i.e. outside of firefox) and
> tell it to use that then it works.
>

do you have a lock file somewhere in your profile? (e.g. run find
$HOME/.mozilla | grep -i lock)

 - Alexander