On 04/21/2010 01:10 PM, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
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
Tejas, My bet (in thunderbird's case) is someone at mozilla got the bright idea to continue indexing or compressing messages after shutdown which would explain the continued running processes, but failed to code a hook to tell the index function that when the user clicks on the tbird icon again, tbird was starting again so "quit indexing and open". I Firefox's case, I can't think of a logical reason unless it's some type of stray sqlite db maintenance that doesn't know when to stop. In either case, it is having very much -- unwanted -- consequenses. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org