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Date:      Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:14:40 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0
Message-ID:  <43E3F1F0.7060205@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <17379.61195.98112.614500@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote:

>Jesse Sheidlower writes:
>
>  
>
>> > >When I try to launch Firefox, I get a message reading "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."
>> > >
>> > You've probably got a stale lockfile. Search for "*lock*"
>> 
>> As I said in my original message, "The only FreeBSD-related
>> message about this that I found talks about deleting lock
>> files in ~/.mozilla, but I don't have any Firefox lock files."
>> I don't have any Mozilla lock files either, for that matter.
>>    
>>
>
>	May we see the output of:
>
>	ps -ax
>
>	run as root?
>
>
>					Robert Huff
>  
>
How about lsof while you're at it =P. ps aux | grep firefox doesn't need 
to be run by root--just someone logged into the machine.
-Garrett



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