linux-firefox
Beech Rintoul
beech at mangohealth.org
Sun Apr 2 00:49:37 UTC 2006
On Saturday 01 April 2006 15:15, Lars Cleary wrote:
> 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.
I deinstalled both versions of firefox and deleted any reference to mozilla or
firefox. I carefully went through /var/run and /root. I rebooted and
reinstalled linux-firefox. Still get the error. This is getting old.
Beech
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