Cant' report a Synaptic Package Manager bug if Firefox is already running

[cjy]

Binary package hint: synaptic

Problem case:
1) Start Firefox
2) Start SPM (enter password)
3) Choose Report a Bug
4) Message is displayed: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

Success case:
1) Close Firefox
2) Start SPM (enter password)
3) Choose Report a Bug
4) Firefox launches, things work properly.
5) Leave firefox running
6) Choose Report a Bug
7) Things work properly...

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 5 13:28:16 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Package: synaptic 0.57.11.1ubuntu14
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
ProcCwd: /home/cjy
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux cjy-laptop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Oded Arbel (oded-geek)]

I can reproduce this as well:

1. Start with neither program running
2. start firefox and synaptic (doesn't matter in which order)
3. report a problem from synaptic's help menu - the above mentioned error appears.

4. close all applications
5. start synaptic
6. report a problem from synaptic's help menu - firefox is started by apport and you can report the bug
7. report an error again, no problem - the firefox window opened by apport is reused.

I can't reproduce this with any other application I tried other then synaptic - I tried evolution, gnome-terminal and yelp