On Tuesday 06 November 2001 04:20, John McNulty wrote:
Close all instances of netscape, then look in your $HOME/.netscape folder, you'll find a "lock" file in there. Remove it and try again. This lock file gets created when netscape starts, and can get left undeleted if netscape dies abnormally for some reason.
Old trick. Doesn't work. The problem isn't that Netscape is stumbling over a PRE existing @lock file.... the problem is that Netscape is stumbling over the @lock file it creates in the process of instantiating itself. Big difference!
As a side issue, why are you using 4.78 anyway?
Reasonable question. Answer: Quicktime 5.x from Codeweaver installs into Netscape and Mozilla, and I prefer Netscape over Mozilla.
Konqueror is far more capable.
I agree. But, while Quicktime is *supposed* to work using Netscape plugins, it does not.
And if you really want to stick wth netscape, then there is a 6.2http://help.dal.net/docs/newbie.html version out now.
I have it. I prefer the the 4.78. Much faster. Jerry
John
On Tuesday 06 November 2001 1:39 am, Jerry Kreps wrote:
Folks, I notice that when I fire Netscape 4.78 (Which comes with SuSE 7.3) then promply displays a message saying a lock file exists, giving process id for it. I've started with no copies of Netscape running, fire ONE copy and immediately get the 'lock' message. Checking the processes I find three copies running, the first being the one "with the lock". IF I delete the 2nd and 3rd copie the 1st copy goes dead and killing it give an error msg saying it doesn't exist anymore.
Anyone else run into this? Jerry