Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:25:55 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: can't start firefox Message-ID: <20101031202555.836e0b66.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimouJoWAO21HtFWfrXhyAycV2hrXPxn_KH4VwZr@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimouJoWAO21HtFWfrXhyAycV2hrXPxn_KH4VwZr@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:11:22 -0400, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@gmail.com> wrote: > Whenever I try to launch firefox I get a message saying 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. Restart the system... very funny... :-) > Then I try doing a ps so that I can find the pid and kill it... > > LBSD1# ps -auxwww | grep firefox > LBSD1# > > > But it does not appear to be running. I've tried rebooting and > reinstalling the port.. nothing works.. HELP!!! :) First check what happens: Try to start Firefox from a terminal window (e. g. xterm) to see if any messages appear. In parallel, have another xterm open and the "top -s 1" command running. Firefox should appear on top of the list, and look something like this: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 1496 poly 10 104 0 49004K 37000K ucond 0:00 151.17% firefox-bin The Firefox's process name is "firefox-bin". If the program doesn't seem to react anymore, look what state it is in. As you should also see the PID, try to kill it and see how the top output changes (in most cases, the process should disappear). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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