-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dotan Cohen wrote: > Recently, I've found that I'm unable to open Firefox after I close the > program. I close Firefox with the X button on the Title bar. When I > try to open it again, I am confronted with this: > Firefox is already running, but not responding. To open a new window, > you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your > system. > > I've looked in /.mozilla/firefox/profile but there is no lock file. > Also, typing jobs at the command line shows me no jobs- not even > things that I know are running such as Opera and Kmail. > > This problem is reproducable: I reboot, and I can open Firefox. > However, after close, it will not reopen. How can I kill Fx so that I > can restart it, without shutting down? > > Dotan Cohen Not sure this will help, but I've found that FF and Thunderbird as well will display this same error if it cannot read the <home> directory (that's not your home but the directory that the program calls home (or possibly it is just 1 of the files within that directory). I keep a separate directory so that I have the same environment in Rawhide, FC6, FC5, and ubuntu and invariably I'll start up the mail program without having mounted the partition this directory is on and I get that error. How does this help you? well... try doing an ls -lah ~/.mozilla/firefox/%$your.default Directory while you can't start firefox look for altered ownership of files/directories and permissions (although I can't imagine why these would be changed by firefox) Are you accessing from different account? perhaps there is a default user/group that is being reset if you are logging from a different user / group or distro perhaps a changed uid referring back to your previous problem having copied you kubuntu /home dir? good hunting! Scott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF7/xG5mBKdb7VQEcRAgyPAJ9ux7PwzQczY+w4z6mXBhbtPZokzgCdFJjM jpnxa/QcxA+FFOCVWNwuT/c= =KjEQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
