Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:15:04 -0300 From: Thomas <thomas3sb@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Linux-firefox does not start Message-ID: <20120809111504.GA5276@host.domain> In-Reply-To: <d54461022ca2019f18ba9d99d492b901@mail.aossama.net> References: <BLU0-SMTP318A7BA3FC277FF961E199F6CC0@phx.gbl> <d54461022ca2019f18ba9d99d492b901@mail.aossama.net>
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Firefox keeps a lock file at $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/{hash.something}/lock .
Delete that and try again. Or just run "firefox -no-remote -P" and
create another profile. You should find backups of your bookmarks in
the older profile's folder, so you can recover them.
Greetings,
Thomas
Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 01:00:32PM +0200, Ahmed Ossama:
> Your profile might have been damaged while it was being checked and the
> power loss occurred.
>
> Try
>
> $ mv .mozilla/firefox/ .mozilla/firefox.bak
>
> and start firefox again.
>
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 13:32:02 +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed www/linux-firefox from ports (FreeBSD 8.2/amd64). The
> > first time it ran, it did some checks. During this time there was an
> > unexpected power loss. Since then whenever I try to start
> > linux-firefox, I get the error message "An instance of firefox is
> > already. Close it or restart your system". But no solution works. I
> > even did a 'make deinstall' followed by 'make install clean' a couple
> > of times. All of no avail.
> >
> > Can anyone please point out what I need to do to get linux-firefox to
> > start ?
> >
> >
> > Thank you &
>
> ---
> Best Regards,
> Ahmed Ossama
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