Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:03:51 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: bluethundr <bluethundr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: firefox fails to launch Message-ID: <AANLkTi=i5XoZ7d6Z7fD%2BJMuzRrrYd7ZJXyxgM0UktVQF@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikBX8F8fupabGDpXHVFFYCXdPQ5NGSPKYF74nfu@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTikBX8F8fupabGDpXHVFFYCXdPQ5NGSPKYF74nfu@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:50 PM, bluethundr <bluethundr@gmail.com> wrote: > hi list > > I finally got KDE 4 running on my FreeBSD 8.1 box! It was a happy day > as it took several days to compile... > > However after installing the firefox port I get a dialog box claiming that > > "firefox is already running but not responding. To open a new window, > you must first close the existing Firefox process or restart your > system" > > doing a ps -ef | grep firefox does not show any firefox processes > running. how can I get firefox to work under freebsd? > > thanks > > very odd, ff worked ootb for me .... look around in /var/run, see if you have a mis-permissioned lockfile
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