linux-firefox

[Lars Cleary]

Beech Rintoul wrote:
> On Monday 27 March 2006 04:22, hackmiester / Hunter Fuller wrote:
>> On Monday 27 March 2006 04:01, Beech Rintoul wrote:
>>> I'm trying to get linux-firefox running on a system that also has native
>>> firefox installed. When I try and start linux-firefox I get a message
>>> saying that firefox is already running (which it's not).
>> You sure?
>> ps ax|grep firefox
>> killall firefox-bin
>> killall linux-firefox
>> killall linux-firefox-bin
>>
>>> I tried rebooting
>>> but the message remains.
>> Rebooting shouldn't be necessary.
>>
>>> Does anyone have a suggestion?
>>>
>>> Beech
> 
> stargate# ps waux | grep firefox-bin
> stargate# ps waux | grep linux-firefox
> stargate# ps waux | grep firefox
> 
> 
> stargate# killall firefox-bin
> No matching processes were found
> stargate# killall linux-firefox
> No matching processes were found
> stargate# killall linux-firefox-bin
> No matching processes were found
> stargate# killall firefox
> No matching processes were found
> 
> #firefox &
> 
> Same error. I even deleted the .mozilla directory.
> 
> Beech
> 
> 
You have a lock file somewhere that needs to be deleted.

It's either in /var/run or in your homedir, I can't remember
where I found it when I had the same problem, sorry.

HTH
Lars