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> References: <20060203225927.GA5681@panix.com> <43E3E41F.7020801@intersonic.se> <20060203232618.GA5815@panix.com> <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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