Lightroom Classic Doesn't Reopen Switching to Different Catalog

[ramd41]

Although in prior versions it did, Lightroom Classic does not automatically reopen when I have it opened and want to swwitch catalogs using File>Open Recent> [Select Catalog].  It just shuts down.  When I manually reopen it chooses the catalog I last selected, but this used to happend automatically without manually reopening it.  Running this from Macbook Pro M1 laptop while running OS X Monterey 12.5.1. Any suggestions are apprecited. 

[johnrellis]

I've noticed this misbehavior a few times.  I've also noticed that the samizdat "restart" script:

import "AgApplication".relaunch ()

that many of us have used for years fails intermittently. 

But unless there is a precise recipe by which Adobe can reproduce these symptoms (or if dozens of people report it), the problem won't get addressed. 

[Ian Lyons]

I see this happening regularly. It also happens when Optimize Catalog is used.