"Locked out" of my profile?

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Hi,
I closed my laptop, moved, opened it and it didn’t start (it’s a FrameWork, the power-led blinked slowly). I shut it down by long-pressing the power-button and could start up again.

First LibreOffice complained that my profile was locked or used by another one (or something, I don’t remember exactly). I could open it, I think agreeing that I could loose previous saved work or credentials.
Then I tried Vivaldi. That wouldn’t open, so I tried with the terminal:

[5378:5378:0401/210654.979119:ERROR:process_singleton_posix.cc(353)] Het profiel lijkt te worden gebruikt door een ander proces in Vivaldi (16906) op een andere computer (C4-3D-1A-5B-28-EF). Het profiel is vergrendeld zo dat het niet wordt beschadigd. Als je zeker weet dat dit profiel niet door andere processen wordt gebruikt, kun je het profiel ontgrendelen en Vivaldi opnieuw starten.
[5378:5378:0401/210654.979339:ERROR:message_box_dialog.cc(146)] Unable to show a dialog outside the UI thread message loop: Vivaldi - Het profiel lijkt te worden gebruikt door een ander proces in Vivaldi (16906) op een andere computer (C4-3D-1A-5B-28-EF). Het profiel is vergrendeld zodat het niet wordt beschadigd. Als je zeker weet dat dit profiel niet door andere processen wordt gebruikt, kun je het profiel ontgrendelen en Vivaldi opni
euw starten.

Translated:

[5378: 5378: 0401/210654.979119: Error: Process_singleton_Posix.cc (353)] The profile seems to be used by another process in Vivaldi (16906) on another computer (C4-3D-1A-5B-28-EF) . The profile is locked so that it is not damaged. If you are sure that this profile is not used by other processes, you can unlock the profile and restart Vivaldi.
[5378: 5378: 0401/210654.979339: Error: Message_Box_Dialog.cc (146)] UNABLE To Show a Dialog Outside the Ui Thread Message Loop: Vivaldi - The profile seems to be used by a different trial in Vivaldi (16906) Computer (C4-3D-1A-5B-28-EF). The profile is locked so that it is not damaged. If you are sure that this profile is not used by other processes, you can unlock the profile and restart Vivaldi.

In my configuration I have only one user. Coincidently I just changed my hostname to Framboise. But now, it’s to something from the network instead.

How can I unlock my profile and what happened??

EDIT: I still don’t understand what happened and if someone can enlighten me, that would be great. I want to avoid it happening again and know what to do if it does. What profile are those programs talking about??
But LibreOffice seems to work fine and my saved files seem OK. I removed and reinstalled Vivaldi (which I don’t want to do too often, its syncing Vivaldi, adding mail and caldav and then adjust some settings).
All other applications seem to work so far.

EDIT2: I do notice that the letters and numbers after “@”, after my username, in the terminal are different now. I restarted and apparently they stay the same normally. Will this affect me somehow? Are there now 2 “profiles” or something like that??

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So, step by step. Your sleep resulted in a freeze which is poorly often the case, something something s2idle vs s3 sleep.

Then Libreoffice complains about that stuff, this always happens when you dont close the documents correctly. There should be a way to enforce this but I know these issues and they are annoying.

Dont know what this has to do with your browser? Did it even give you errors?

Now your shell prompt is pretty concerning, there shouldnt be any random numbers appearing there. Please copy paste the exact shell prompt you get.

So to sum it up, likely nothing big, Libreoffice is annoying, you may want to switch to the different sleep mode.

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A web search for that error lead me to reddit and this suggestion.

thewaytonever
•3mo ago
Just had this same problem after updating my hostname on Fedora I fixed it by deleting these files
~/.config/Vivaldi/SingletonCookie
~/.config/Vivaldi/SingletonLock
~/.config/Vivaldi/SingletonSocket
Hope that helps.

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Thank you Barry A Scott!
I also searched the net, but apparently not good enough (probably with the wrong search words). I panicked, since I thought it was a system wide and much bigger problem.
I now removed and reinstalled Vivaldi, which helped as well. But I keep you’re solutions, if I ever encounter the same problem.
I’m not sure the hostname change caused the problem, that was a few days before. I mentioned it, because it now appeared to have changed back to something different.
I searched on my laptop for that hostname and is was indeed linked to Vivaldi and mail. It ends with the domain-name of my provider.

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So, step by step. Your sleep resulted in a freeze which is poorly often the case, something something s2idle vs s3 sleep.

I closed my laptop, changed places and reopened. There the powerled blinked slowly and my screen stayed black. I will shut down my computer in the future, if I move around with it.
(It reassures me that this sleeping problem is known.)

Then Libreoffice complains about that stuff, this always happens when you dont close the documents correctly. There should be a way to enforce this but I know these issues and they are annoying.

That’s the thing with LibreOffice: even if I save my document, when I reopen it often asks to restore my previous document, even if it was saved correct. I think also when closing the document, but I’m not sure, I will pay more attention next time. I searched this problem and I think removing and reinstalling LibreOffice could solve the problem.
Again, good to know it’s a known problem. The error message was a bit scary, for a second it looked I would have lost all previous work.

Dont know what this has to do with your browser? Did it even give you errors?

After the error with LibreOffice, I opened Vivaldi, but it didn’t open (you see it trying to open and then stopping without succes). When I opened it with the terminal, I got the error message above.
I guess it was just bad luck that those 2 programs gave me trouble, because it gave me the impression everything was messed up… But other programs run just fine.

Now your shell prompt is pretty concerning, there shouldnt be any random numbers appearing there. Please copy paste the exact shell prompt you get.

Very strange, but yesterday I restarted (a few times, testing and trying to fix things) and then my prompt was: jonathan@ptr-18ixqbsh2kb7770snjs. Now it’s again like before I guess (it looks the same, I don’t remember the exact letters): jonathan@C4-3D-1A-5B-28-EF. I didn’t restart since then.

So to sum it up, likely nothing big, Libreoffice is annoying, you may want to switch to the different sleep mode.

In Libre-Office you mean? I’ll check the configuration now.
Thanks a lot!

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The hostname is part of your shell prompt, you can make it static like this:

sudo hostnamectl hostname fedora-laptop

The default one is transient, obtained from the DHCP server.

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That didn’t change the letters after my username in the terminal (that is the same as the shell prompt? or not?)
That only change the hostname in general. (But I don’t mind the letters, just wanted to let you know)