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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:27:15 -0500
From:      bluethundr <bluethundr@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: firefox fails to launch
Message-ID:  <AANLkTi=Qbh_n=5RP6z_pBef2sFFRTJkYhAaB-ZPWdg10@mail.gmail.com>
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that did it!! whoo-hoo!! love it..thanks


On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> wrote=
:
>
>
> 2010-11-29 01:50, bluethundr skrev:
>>
>> hi list
>>
>> =A0I finally got KDE 4 running on my FreeBSD 8.1 box! It was a happy day
>> as it took several days to compile...
>>
>> =A0However after installing the firefox port I get a dialog box claiming
>> that
>>
>> =A0"firefox is already running but not responding. To open a new window,
>> you must first close the existing Firefox process or restart your
>> system"
>
> You need to remove ye olde lockfile, normally at
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/profilename/!lock
>
> One can even remove .parentlock in the same directory
>
>> doing a ps -ef | grep firefox does not show any firefox processes
>> running. how can I get firefox to work under freebsd?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>



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