Op 02-11-12 16:32, Felix Miata schreef:
On 2012-11-02 16:03 (GMT+0100) Andreas Jaeger composed:
Oddball wrote:
I ask this, because moving .mozilla and .thunderbird into a new user /home brought up the dialog: Firefox, (or) Thunderbird already running, close first. Which could not be done, because they were not in use.
There might be a "lock" file in those directories, just remove it and try again.
The "...is already running" message is generic. It may in fact be that FF/TB is already running, or that it was unexpectantly closed, either of which results in a lock file existing.
However, that message is also is used when there is a file access problem, which is a not uncommon result of manual profile manipulation, such as copying profile data to another user.
e.g., ~/.mozilla/firefox/firefox.ini might contain:
[General] StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0] Name=myff IsRelative=0 Path=/home/myname/.mozilla/myff Default=1
IsRelative=0 means the profile is hard-coded to a particular location. To move it to a new location requires the Path= line be adjusted accordingly. Otherwise the app will look in the indicated location, and in all likelihood encounter lack of read and/or write permission on profile data it needs.
Lines within prefs.js in the actual profile directory may also contain non-relative locations. Wherever that occurs, it needs to be similarly adjusted to the new location.
The profile migration process these apps offer, when used, takes care of such adjustments automatically. Ah, i never encountered this. TB offers a way to import stuff, but not filters. The strange thing about this 'lock' is, that i moved .ff and .tb to another location, deleted the user/home, created a new user with the same name, and placed the files back in place, in the new /home.
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