Patrick, Tavi, On Sunday 20 February 2005 07:03, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Taavi Dovnar
[02-20-05 05:53]: But I have problem, that this lock file remains there, although I close Thunderbird (and Firefox, Mozilla has same problem) nicely, even logout or halt computer. And in another computer I would have to delete manually this lock file in order to use default profile... Any suggestions?
When you have the problem, run from the command-line: ps aux|grep -i thunderbird
to see if any instances of thunderbird remain. If so (and I suspect that this is your problem), issue from the command-line: kill -9
and the lock file will magically disappear.
That's very doubtful. Signal 9, SIGKILL, cannot be caught or ignored, so using it to kill a process _guarantees_ that it will not be able to perform its shut-down clean-up operations. Use plain "kill". The default signal, SIGTERM, is a _request_ for the process to terminate. Well written programs that require clean-up before termination will catch this signal and exit gracefully when they receive it). Programs that don't need to perform cleanup will also be terminated by this signal, since by default it causes the process to exit.
-- Patrick Shanahan
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