Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2488 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 05 February 2007 09:26, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> ANOTHER 64-bit problem, or I think it is. Some apps. like FireFox and
> OpenOffice come up with a warning about an instance of the app. already
> running, even though it isn't. FireFox is dead in the water - WON'T run.
> Openoffice will load, but then won't close so I have to kill it.

First of all, please stop using caps, it is annoying

Second, these applications have lock files. Am I right in thinking you are 
killing them with kill -9, so they don't get a chance to remove their lock 
files?

For firefox, while it isn't running, try running

find $HOME/.mozilla/ -name lock -exec rm {} \;

then try starting firefox again

For openoffice, I don't know why it won't exit, but it doesn't have any 
problems on my 64 bit machine. If you start it from a console, does it give 
you any error messages?

btw, it has a lock file too. While it isn't running, run

rm $HOME/.ooo-2.0/.lock

and it won't complain about already running anymore

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