"Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0

Jesse Sheidlower jester at panix.com
Fri Feb 3 15:26:19 PST 2006


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.

Jesse Sheidlower



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