[opensuse] Firefox not starting after 11.1 install
Hi, I've just installed 11.1 64 bit and cannot start firefox as user, I get a message saying firefox is already running but ps -AF doesn't show any instances running. Anybody know whats happening? It starts as root. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday January 22 2009, Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I've just installed 11.1 64 bit and cannot start firefox as user, I get a message saying firefox is already running but ps -AF doesn't show any instances running. Anybody know whats happening? It starts as root. Regards
Look in ~/.mozilla/firefox/{Your-Profile-Dir}/ for a symlink called "lock". That symlink will point to a non-existent file with a name something like 127.0.0.2:+NNNNN where the NNNNN is a PID. If firefox died leaving this lock behind and there happens to be a process with that ID, Firefox will think you're trying to launch it anew while it is still running. Remove that "lock" symlink and try starting Firefox again.
Dave P
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday January 22 2009, Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I've just installed 11.1 64 bit and cannot start firefox as user, I get a message saying firefox is already running but ps -AF doesn't show any instances running. Anybody know whats happening? It starts as root. Regards
Look in ~/.mozilla/firefox/{Your-Profile-Dir}/ for a symlink called "lock". That symlink will point to a non-existent file with a name something like 127.0.0.2:+NNNNN where the NNNNN is a PID. If firefox died leaving this lock behind and there happens to be a process with that ID, Firefox will think you're trying to launch it anew while it is still running.
Remove that "lock" symlink and try starting Firefox again.
Dave P
Randall Schulz
I found a symlink called parentlock but deleting it didn't make a difference and I deleted both profiles and still no joy. I am going to log out to install nvidia driver and will try again after that. Thanks Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I've just installed 11.1 64 bit and cannot start firefox as user, I get a message saying firefox is already running but ps -AF doesn't show any instances running. Anybody know whats happening? It starts as root. Regards Dave P
there is a lockfile present most likely. clear that and it will be fine -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bruce Ferrell wrote:
Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I've just installed 11.1 64 bit and cannot start firefox as user, I get a message saying firefox is already running but ps -AF doesn't show any instances running. Anybody know whats happening? It starts as root. Regards Dave P
there is a lockfile present most likely. clear that and it will be fine
I've looked but no luck yet Thanks Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 22 January 2009 08:46:46 am Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I've just installed 11.1 64 bit and cannot start firefox as user, I get a message saying firefox is already running but ps -AF doesn't show any instances running. Anybody know whats happening? It starts as root.
Not sure it is relevant, but Firefox can produce that message even when it is not running. For example, if you try to start with a specific profile that is currently unavailable (say it was stored on a network drive that is currently unmounted). I'm not sure what other conditions might cause this. Not sure this helps you, but maybe firefox isn't actually running. -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday January 22 2009, Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I've just installed 11.1 64 bit and cannot start firefox as user, I get a message saying firefox is already running but ps -AF doesn't show any instances running. Anybody know whats happening? It starts as root. Regards Dave P
If you continue experience difficulty, you should look in ~/.xsession-errors for diagnostics produced by Firefox while running. Alternately, you can run Firefox from a shell rather than a desktop icon or the launch menu. If you do that, you'll see any diagnostic output it produces in the terminal emulator window from which you launch it. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday January 22 2009, Dave Plater wrote:
Hi, I've just installed 11.1 64 bit and cannot start firefox as user, I get a message saying firefox is already running but ps -AF doesn't show any instances running. Anybody know whats happening? It starts as root. Regards Dave P
If you continue experience difficulty, you should look in ~/.xsession-errors for diagnostics produced by Firefox while running.
Alternately, you can run Firefox from a shell rather than a desktop icon or the launch menu. If you do that, you'll see any diagnostic output it produces in the terminal emulator window from which you launch it.
Randall Schulz
Thanks all, I couldn't find the lockfile but deleting the entire contents of the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory and logging out and in again sorted it out. Now all I have to do is retrieve my bookmarks from backup. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday January 22 2009, Dave Plater wrote:
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Thanks all, I couldn't find the lockfile but deleting the entire contents of the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory and logging out and in again sorted it out. Now all I have to do is retrieve my bookmarks from backup.
In the future, just move the directory away from the place that makes it special, don't actually eradicate it!
Regards Dave P
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday January 22 2009, Dave Plater wrote:
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Thanks all, I couldn't find the lockfile but deleting the entire contents of the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory and logging out and in again sorted it out. Now all I have to do is retrieve my bookmarks from backup.
In the future, just move the directory away from the place that makes it special, don't actually eradicate it!
Regards Dave P
Randall Schulz
I think firefox was running when I backed up the home directory. I'm going to try restoring it with firefox running and see what happens. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dave Plater wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday January 22 2009, Dave Plater wrote:
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Thanks all, I couldn't find the lockfile but deleting the entire contents of the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory and logging out and in again sorted it out. Now all I have to do is retrieve my bookmarks from backup.
In the future, just move the directory away from the place that makes it special, don't actually eradicate it!
Regards Dave P
Randall Schulz
I think firefox was running when I backed up the home directory. I'm going to try restoring it with firefox running and see what happens. Regards Dave P
Success, I restored ~/.mozilla/firefox with firefox running and I've got all my addons, bookmarks etc restored as well after restarting firefox. The moral of the story :- don't backup home directory with firefox running. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dave Plater wrote:
Dave Plater wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday January 22 2009, Dave Plater wrote:
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Thanks all, I couldn't find the lockfile but deleting the entire contents of the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory and logging out and in again sorted it out. Now all I have to do is retrieve my bookmarks from backup.
In the future, just move the directory away from the place that makes it special, don't actually eradicate it!
Regards Dave P
Randall Schulz
I think firefox was running when I backed up the home directory. I'm going to try restoring it with firefox running and see what happens. Regards Dave P
Success, I restored ~/.mozilla/firefox with firefox running and I've got all my addons, bookmarks etc restored as well after restarting firefox. The moral of the story :- don't backup home directory with firefox running. Regards Dave P
Sorry, but I see nothing wrong with making a backup of /home with firefox running. The only thing which doing so does - and you have been told/warned about this in other posts - is that the backup will contain (shown in red colour if you use mc to look inside the directory) the file "!lock" in ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxxx.default which you need to delete otherwise firefox cannot be activated again because it thinks that a copy is already running. Same thing will happen to Thunderbird if that is being used. In any case, you do not restore ~/.mozilla/firefox but simply ~/.mozilla because it is this directory which contains *all* of the firefox profile details (for a particular user). Ciao. -- "I do not instruct the uninterested; I do not help those who fail to try. If I mention one corner of a subject and the pupil does not deduce therefrom the other three, I drop him." Confucius -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Basil Chupin wrote:
Dave Plater wrote:
Dave Plater wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Thursday January 22 2009, Dave Plater wrote:
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Thanks all, I couldn't find the lockfile but deleting the entire contents of the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory and logging out and in again sorted it out. Now all I have to do is retrieve my bookmarks from backup.
In the future, just move the directory away from the place that makes it special, don't actually eradicate it!
Regards Dave P
Randall Schulz
I think firefox was running when I backed up the home directory. I'm going to try restoring it with firefox running and see what happens. Regards Dave P
Success, I restored ~/.mozilla/firefox with firefox running and I've got all my addons, bookmarks etc restored as well after restarting firefox. The moral of the story :- don't backup home directory with firefox running. Regards Dave P
Sorry, but I see nothing wrong with making a backup of /home with firefox running.
The only thing which doing so does - and you have been told/warned about this in other posts - is that the backup will contain (shown in red colour if you use mc to look inside the directory) the file "!lock" in ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxxx.default which you need to delete otherwise firefox cannot be activated again because it thinks that a copy is already running. Same thing will happen to Thunderbird if that is being used.
In any case, you do not restore ~/.mozilla/firefox but simply ~/.mozilla because it is this directory which contains *all* of the firefox profile details (for a particular user).
Ciao.
I looked for lock but couldn't find it but now with firefox running it's present with the ! which in mc means a link to a nonexistent file although its shown as a link to 127.0.0.2:+22439. I've just searched my backup again and the file doesn't exist. BTW I think thunderbird was also running when I copied my home directory to backup but everything went smoothly. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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