Firefox lock file?
Ray Parrish
crp at cmc.net
Tue Feb 10 05:00:36 UTC 2009
NoOp wrote:
> On 02/09/2009 07:20 PM, Ray Parrish wrote:
>
>
>>> One thing I have done in the past when Firefox gets confused is to start
>>> it in a terminal and see if there are any error messages that point to
>>> the problem. I have also moved the existing profile to another
>>> directory and let Firefox create a new profile and then restore the
>>> books marks, saved passwords, etc to the new profile.
>>>
>>>
>> I've tried both of those suggestions, plus marking Firefox for complete
>> removal with Synaptic and applying, then re-installing, and it still
>> will not start, claiming that it is already running. Starting it with
>> terminal returns no error messages.
>>
>
> Check for the pid and then kill it. Example:
>
> $ ps -e |grep firefox
> 25587 ? 00:00:03 firefox
>
> The pid for my currently running firefox is 25587, so to kill it:
>
> $ kill 25587
>
>
>
>
It's not running, that command returns no output...
Later, Ray Parrish
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