On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 16:41 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote:

I keep getting a message when starting firefox as user about an instance of firefox already running but not responding.

When I run ps several times in a succession, the process number keeps changing as shown below:

tom@laptop= / $ ps aux | grep firefox tom 8561 0.0 0.0 7664 808 pts/0 S+ 16:31 0:00 grep firefox tom@laptop= / $ ps aux | grep firefox tom 8565 0.0 0.0 7664 808 pts/0 S+ 16:32 0:00 grep firefox tom@laptop= / $ ps aux | grep firefox tom 8569 0.0 0.0 7664 808 pts/0 S+ 16:32 0:00 grep firefox tom@laptop= / $ ps aux | grep firefox tom 8573 0.0 0.0 7664 812 pts/0 S+ 16:32 0:00 grep firefox tom@laptop= / $

When I try to kill it with each of the process numbers it says the process does not exist. It doesn't seem to affect firefox which still starts and performs normally.

Anyone else experience this behavior?

Tom

-- Tom Taylor - retired penguin

Read the message in those ps'es. Of course the PID changes every time. The process that shows is "grep firefox" Its the process of you grepping firefox! So every time you rerun that ps, its a new PID.. Here's what it would look like if you had firefox processes running: bryen 6793 0.0 0.0 12428 1564 ? S Jul09 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/firefox bryen 6798 6.1 14.5 1213652 589032 ? Rl Jul09 131:06 /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox bryen 8849 0.0 0.0 7392 840 pts/1 R+ 19:15 0:00 grep firefox Try launching firefox from the terminal from the terminal and see what messages come up. That's where you'll get your clues from. Bryen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org