No, it doesn't happen every time. I have not been able to make it fail. I am doing a lot of localhost with JavaScript, php, and MySQL. Any ideas on how to run down what is hanging? Thanks, Dan Healy <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Brandon Tomlinson <<a href="mailto:thebwt@gmail.com">thebwt@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Does this happen every time? My gut tells me that something like flash or java is likely hanging on close. perhaps related to <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/614961" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/614961</a> <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Dan Healy <<a href="mailto:dfhealy@gmail.com">dfhealy@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > I have been using Firefox with several tabs active. I close all of the tabs > and close Firefox. When I try to restart Firefox I get the following > message: > > 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. > > I go to System/Administration/System Monitor and I find the following entry: > > Process Name Status % CPU Nice ID Memory Waiting Channel > > firefox-bin Sleeping 0 0 3391 39.4 MiB > futex_wait_que_me > > Even before I click OK on the Firefox is already ... message a new > firefox-bin process is started. > > When I select a firefox-bin process on the System Monitor the End Process > button is activated. When I click that button all of the firefox-bin > processes are ended and I can open the Firefox browser. > > Why am I getting the futex_wait_que_me Waiting Channel for the firefox-bin > process and how do I avoid it? > > I am using Firefox version 3.6.23, Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical - > 1.0, with Ubuntu 10.04 > > Thanks, > > Dan Healy > </div></div>> -- > Ubuntu-us-tx mailing list > <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-tx@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-tx@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-tx" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-tx</a> > > -- Ubuntu-us-tx mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-tx@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-tx@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-tx" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-tx</a> </blockquote></div>