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