From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 9 11:15:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8AD1065670 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:15:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thomas3sb@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350FA8FC0C for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:15:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenl7 with SMTP id l7so344281yen.13 for ; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:15:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=91Q08tpZ6Sd6TjjyhtfAgslwmp2hV5KXRL+gGVC6Rrc=; b=TaVQYhmwF2eHNsYs46FDG29ItIIHLboRqfd4AUATuGttmuSBzFQniMKgpK8Mz/lp/g gTntO028L9icbOx6FWl2Q1i/aUVVtMbVw44zMxtGmvQTxYV9CgkQ+Br2zW/uPbGi8CyE Va9WNSS16qxphi8z8lPfYykpLoQNd7F/TJCA7KXJ9VPJdlMh9DotQS8c1hm7a2aLoZZK QMZ/heCssKU9iDInAI7Q5zD2DP0K+GhmdUopH0U2bYv4gfwu2ILSWDxeGLWYFnWwR40I MgCQSqrkiA9G64ZEoJnGRWB+Arn59JD7wcSrYjXSBY4MS7L6ALic/Hym9oAbWSS994VL AJfA== Received: by 10.236.115.38 with SMTP id d26mr20545849yhh.40.1344510914410; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:15:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host.domain (189.27.183.206.dynamic.adsl.gvt.net.br. [189.27.183.206]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c64sm1457727yhj.17.2012.08.09.04.15.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:15:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:15:04 -0300 From: Thomas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120809111504.GA5276@host.domain> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: Manish Jain Subject: Re: Linux-firefox does not start X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:15:15 -0000 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"