Firefox not closing

[scott]

On 09/05/2011 03:38 PM, Md Ashickur Rahman Noor wrote:
> Then downgrade your firefox version.
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> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:30 AM, scott<redhowlingwolves at nc.rr.com>  wrote:
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>> On 09/05/2011 03:08 PM, scott wrote:
>>
>>> On 09/05/2011 03:03 PM, scott wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've had a problem with firefox lately. I close it and attempt to reopen
>>>> it sometime later and get a message that firefox is already running. I have
>>>> to do a "ps -e | grep firefox" to find the PID to kill it. It usually shows
>>>> 2 instances of firefox running, one with a 'defunct' tag. I've renamed the
>>>> .mozilla folder to .mozilla.old and it still happens, even with no
>>>> extensions at all.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Scott
>>>>
>>>>   By the way, it's firefox 6.0.1 on 10.10.
>>>   I went back into my .mozilla folder and found that the lock folder was
>> broken. Deleted it. I'll let the list know if this helps or not. *Fingers
>> crossed*
>>
>> Scott
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No luck. I get error messages running firefox from terminal saying

"** (<unknown>:3485): DEBUG: NP_Initialize
** (<unknown>:3485): DEBUG: NP_Initialize succeeded
** (<unknown>:3487): DEBUG: NP_Initialize
** (<unknown>:3487): DEBUG: NP_Initialize succeeded
** (<unknown>:3489): DEBUG: NP_Initialize
** (<unknown>:3489): DEBUG: NP_Initialize succeeded
** (<unknown>:3485): DEBUG: NP_Shutdown
NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
WARNING: waitpid failed pid:3485 errno:10: file 
/build/buildd/firefox-6.0.1+build1+nobinonly/build-tree/mozilla/ipc/chromium/src/base/process_util_posix.cc, 
line 237
** (<unknown>:3487): DEBUG: NP_Shutdown
NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
WARNING: waitpid failed pid:3485 errno:10: file 
/build/buildd/firefox-6.0.1+build1+nobinonly/build-tree/mozilla/ipc/chromium/src/base/process_util_posix.cc, 
line 237
** (<unknown>:3489): DEBUG: NP_Shutdown
NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
WARNING: waitpid failed pid:3485 errno:10: file 
/build/buildd/firefox-6.0.1+build1+nobinonly/build-tree/mozilla/ipc/chromium/src/base/process_util_posix.cc, 
line 237
NOTE: child process received `Goodbye', closing down
WARNING: waitpid failed pid:3485 errno:10: file 
/build/buildd/firefox-6.0.1+build1+nobinonly/build-tree/mozilla/ipc/chromium/src/base/process_util_posix.cc, 
line 237
WARNING: waitpid failed pid:3485 errno:10: file 
/build/buildd/firefox-6.0.1+build1+nobinonly/build-tree/mozilla/ipc/chromium/src/base/process_util_posix.cc, 
line 237
WARNING: Failed to deliver SIGKILL to 3485!(3).: file 
/build/buildd/firefox-6.0.1+build1+nobinonly/build-tree/mozilla/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/process_watcher_posix_sigchld.cc, 
line 162"

It appears in the "bool KillProcess(ProcessHandle process_id, int 
exit_code, bool wait)" function in process_util_posix.cc

// Attempts to kill the process identified by the given process
// entry structure.  Ignores specified exit_code; posix can't force that.
// Returns true if this is successful, false otherwise.

and the error in process_watcher_sigchild.cc is a simple

line 162:  LOG(ERROR)<<  "Failed to deliver SIGKILL to "<<  process_<<  "!"
             <<  "("<<  errno<<  ").";

I see firefox-bin has pid 3485. I see no processes for 3487 or 3489, 
even as root. Any other way I can see what these pid's are? Maybe 
they're the problem.

scott