Firefox lock file?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Ray Parrish wrote:
> Without ever stopping to think about why or ow it could have moved, I 
> fired up a root file browser, and moved it back into my user folder. 
> AFter doing this, the next time I tried to start Nutilus, it wouldn't 
> start, and complained of the.gnome2 folder being missing.
> 
> I used terminal to copy the .gnome2 folder to the root, [I had to create 
> a root folder as well] and now I have a mess. There is a Desktop folder 
> at the root of the drive with nothing in it, and several other folders. 
> If I knew which ones actually belonged there I could maybe fix it.

Having parts of your home directory owned by root can cause serious
problems.  I can't say whether that's the cause of your current problem,
but modifying your home directory as root is usually regrettable.

> At one point I was ready to re-install Ubuntu, but my Live CD will not 
> work anymore.

Short of that, first try creating a new user account, logging into it
(GUI) and running Firefox.

Matt Flaschen