Subject: Re: firefox-linux process
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi>
From: Ingbert Meyer <imeyer@orceo.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/01/2007 08:32:39
Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:12:40PM +0000, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running www/firefox-bin-flash from pkgsrc-2006Q3 on NetBSD/i386 3.1, 
>> but it crashes often. The problem is I can't run firefox-linux again 
>> ("Firefox is already running. (...)"). But when I look up for the process, 
>> I can't find it. I get this message even when trying to run NetBSD 
>> compiled binary firefox. /var/run has nothing too.
>>
>> Any solutions?
>>     
>
> I have the same problem and removing ~/.mozilla/firefox/* helps - but then
> you lose your bookmarks as well.  Never had the time to track down _which_
> file is the problem.  (IMHO, this is a bug in firefox..)
>
>   -jm
>   
find ~/.mozilla -name '.parentlock' -exec rm -f {} \;

this is not a solution, but   you can restart firefox .
ingo