Firefox problem

[Basil Chupin]

On 29/01/13 21:36, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 29/01/13 21:27, Phil wrote:
>> Thank you for reading this tale of woe.
>>
>> I reinstalled Kubuntu after a data loss disaster and now I have this 
>> Firefox problem. The error message reads:
>>
>> "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."
>>
>> Firefox is not actually running but something in the system thinks 
>> that it is. Restarting the system does not help.
>>
>> It is very likely that I've created this problem after restoring the 
>> backup. I think I had Firefox running during the restore process.
>>
>> Can anyone offer any suggestions?
>>
> Have a look in /.mozilla/firefox/XXXXX.default and see if the "!lock" 
> file is there. If it is delete it (as root).
>
> BC
>

That should be, of course, /home/xxxxx/.mozilla/......

BC

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