Problem starting Firefox session

[Chris G]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:50:05AM -0800, Graham Potts wrote:
>    Hi there,
> 
>    I am a new user to Ububto having just migrated from Windows XP. I
>    installed Fiefox as I have been a long time user of it. I did have it
>    working OK but know when I click on my Firefox desktop icon I get a Close
>    Firefox box containing 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 couldn't see it running anywhere so I restarted the system. Nothing
>    happened and I still got the same message.
> 
>    Then I de-installed Firefox and then re-installed Firefox but I am still
>    getting the same message.
> 
>    Can anyone help a "newbie to Linux" with this problem.
> 
It's probably a lock file in your firefox configuration directory. 
You need to remove this lock file.

The lock file will *probably* be in your home directory and is
something like:-

    ~/.mozilla/firefox/abcxyz.default/lock

(that abcxyz is actually a random name, it won't actually be abcxyz)

If (from the command line) you do:-

    find ~/.mozilla -name lock

it should return the full path to the lock file.  Just remove it and
all should be well.

-- 
Chris Green