Firefox locked for one user -- How to clear?

[Scott Ledyard]

The mozilla site mentions to look for such processes. Your instructions are
more specific and I'll use them when this happens again. Thanks!

On 5/8/07, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 08 May 2007, Scott Ledyard wrote:
>
> > About once a week, a student approaches me and says that Firefox is
> > broken. When you try to run Firefox, a message comes up that says that
> > it's already running.  Re-logging in does not help. The end-of-day
> > reboot does! This was a problem in Edubuntu thin client 6.10 and now
> > in 7.04.
>
> Firefox stops people from running it twice on the same profile.  This is
> to
> prevent nasty behaviour such as two copies of firefox trying to both
> modify
> your bookmarks file at the same time.
>
> You can do:
>
> ps aux |grep firefox
>
> to see what firefox processes are lying around.  If you see one under that
> person's username, you probably need to kill it before they can start
> another.
>
> Gavin
>
>
>
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