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On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:28:19AM -0800, Edward M wrote: |
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> On 11/10/2013 1:38 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> > When it does not kill correctly and I try to restart that |
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> > session, I get the error that the session is already running. |
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> Hello,:-) |
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> / |
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> /The following article explains how to deal with "Firefox is already |
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> running" message.hope it helps out |
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> "Run *strace -o ~/ff.strace firefox* and then investigated the |
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> strace file. My hunch was that one or other file lock |
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> wasn't being relinquished properly, perhaps from an earlier |
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> crashed firefox process. I grepped through the log, looking for file |
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> opens, and eventually found this:/ |
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> open("/home/matthew/.mozilla/firefox/2z7l4uii.default/.parentlock", |
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> O_WRONLY|O/CREAT|O/TRUNC, 0666) = 4/ |
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> Bingo! I checked; and even with no firefox process running, |
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> this file existed. It was an empty lock file, so I deleted it. That did |
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> the trick --- now FireFox runs again! |
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Couldn't you just issue: |
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find .mozilla/firefox/ -iname '*.parentlock' 2>/dev/null |
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rather than running strace? |
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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A: Top-posting. |
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