Firefox locked for one user -- How to clear?

[Scott Balneaves]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:30:30PM +0100, Gavin McCullagh 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.

Depending on what's mucked up, you might also have to remove the lock
file.

Scott

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