On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:28:19AM -0800, Edward M wrote:
> On 11/10/2013 1:38 PM, Dale wrote:
> > When it does not kill correctly and I try to restart that
> > session, I get the error that the session is already running.
>
> Hello,:-)
> /
> /The following article explains how to deal with "Firefox is already
> running" message.hope it helps out
>
> "Run *strace -o ~/ff.strace firefox* and then investigated the
> strace file. My hunch was that one or other file lock
> wasn't being relinquished properly, perhaps from an earlier
> crashed firefox process. I grepped through the log, looking for file
> opens, and eventually found this:/
> open("/home/matthew/.mozilla/firefox/2z7l4uii.default/.parentlock",
> O_WRONLY|O/CREAT|O/TRUNC, 0666) = 4/
> Bingo! I checked; and even with no firefox process running,
> this file existed. It was an empty lock file, so I deleted it. That did
> the trick --- now FireFox runs again!
Couldn't you just issue:
find .mozilla/firefox/ -iname '*.parentlock' 2>/dev/null
rather than running strace?
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