On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:30:30PM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > On Tue, 08 May 2007, Scott Ledyard wrote: > > > About once a week, a student approaches me and says that Firefox is > > broken. When you try to run Firefox, a message comes up that says that > > it's already running. Re-logging in does not help. The end-of-day > > reboot does! This was a problem in Edubuntu thin client 6.10 and now > > in 7.04. > > Firefox stops people from running it twice on the same profile. This is to > prevent nasty behaviour such as two copies of firefox trying to both modify > your bookmarks file at the same time.
Depending on what's mucked up, you might also have to remove the lock file. Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | "Eternity is a very long time, Systems Department | especially towards the end." Legal Aid Manitoba | -- Woody Allen -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
