Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (807 mails)

[Tejas Guruswamy <masterpatricko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/04/10 16:55, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
>
>       Over the past week or so, I have had terrible problems with thunderbird 
> and
> firefox not quitting when you tell them to resulting in either and error 
> message
> when you try and restart them telling you they are still running and you have 
> to
> quit them first before you can restart them or just screwing up your session 
> so
> that firefox and thunderbird unexpectedly start the next time you launch your
> desktop (kde set to save session on exit)
>
>       I thought something with kde session manager was botched at first and I 
> would
> just either edit or delete ksmserverrc, but then when I got the error about
> Firefox and Thunderbird needing to be shutdown before being restarted, things
> started to make a little more sense.
>
>       For example, when thunderbird fails to shutdown, the process that 
> continue to
> run are either one or more of:
>
>     thunderbird
>     thunderbird-bin
>     thunderbird.sh
>
>       Setting up a small script to check for them and kill them straightened 
> this
> out, but that doesn't answer the question of what's broke or how to fix it. 
> Has
> anyone else seen this behavior?
>   
This complaint is a regular visitor to the opensuse lists ... e.g.

[opensuse] An annoying behaviour by latest version of Firefox in openSUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2010-02/msg00633.html

However it is a nebulous beast, and fingers are pointed in all
directions with no certainty (see the linked thread, loads of different
solutions to try). Some days later the problem often disappears just as
mysteriously as it appears (as it did in the above case).

Try using lsof and friends to figure out what files are still open by
thunderbird / firefox / whatever. Can't guarantee that it will help
solve anything though, based on previous experience.

Regards,
Tejas
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