Thanks for your help. I deleted all the copies of .parentlock and lock I could find. That didn't help so I deleted all the mozilla directories (there was more than one in my user space) and completely uninstalled iceweasel. Then I reinstalled iceweasel and it seems to work ok.
Robin On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Lance A. Brown <la...@bearcircle.net>wrote: > > Richard Carter wrote: > > For a while after I installed iceweasel on the new box it seemed to work > > fine. However, now when I try to start Iceweasel I get an error message > > from kde 4.4.5 that iceweasel is already running but not responding and > > that I must shut it down or restart my system. I have tried the > > following things without success: restarting; shutting down and > > restarting; uninstalling iceweasel and then reinstalling; completely > > uninstalling (including configuration files) and reinstalling. > > Sounds like a stale lock file. This might help > > > http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/help/faqs/communication/problems-starting-iceweasel-or-thunderbird > > > -- > GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 > CACert.org Assurer > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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