firefox does not start

Sandy Harris sandyinchina at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 04:53:54 UTC 2009


On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:

> Newly installed system, 8.10 64-bit on Core 2 duo box.
> Busy adding software, doing updates, etc.
>
> Firefox worked for a while, then got to a state where
> if I try to start it, it always says another firefox is
> running and I must kill that or restart the computer.

Solved.

As part of the install, I'd copied /home from another
disk, but I did that as root so some file owner/group
labels were wrong. A chown -R fixed it.

-- 
Sandy Harris,
Quanzhou, Fujian, China




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