"Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0

[Jacob S]

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On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 18:26:18 -0500
Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 12:15:43AM +0100, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> > Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> > >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.

It would help if you could show us how you know, rather than simply
stating that you know. Did you run the find command looking for lock
files? If yes, please copy/paste the exact command you used. Also, have
you run a "ps ax | grep firefox", looking for rogue firefox processes
that didn't quit properly?

With Firefox running, I found a 'lock' file in
~/.mozilla/firefox/<random>.default/. This is using Firefox 1.5.

HTH,
Jacob
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