firefox fails to launch

[bluethundr]

that did it!! whoo-hoo!! love it..thanks


On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Bernt Hansson <bernt at bah.homeip.net> wrote:
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>
> 2010-11-29 01:50, bluethundr skrev:
>>
>> hi list
>>
>>  I finally got KDE 4 running on my FreeBSD 8.1 box! It was a happy day
>> as it took several days to compile...
>>
>>  However after installing the firefox port I get a dialog box claiming
>> that
>>
>>  "firefox is already running but not responding. To open a new window,
>> you must first close the existing Firefox process or restart your
>> system"
>
> You need to remove ye olde lockfile, normally at
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/profilename/!lock
>
> One can even remove .parentlock in the same directory
>
>> doing a ps -ef | grep firefox does not show any firefox processes
>> running. how can I get firefox to work under freebsd?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>



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