-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 18:36 +0200, 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 >> > This is not the answer but I am curious. I argue with my wife about this > all the time. Do you get the same firefox behavior if you Quit under the > file menu. I find it fairly common that firefox is running but the > window does not open up on the deskttop. Then when I try to launch > firefox again I get the same error you are getting and I need to run ps > and kill all the firefoxs running. My small knowledge of programming in C and Assembler indicates that it *should* be unlikely to have different things happen depending on which exit you choose. The usual rule is to make 1 exit routine ( the code that cleans up memory and releases it back to the system etc.) Though a few years ago I was operating a Unix box for the Navy and there was a problem that if a program was exited using the window widget ( the one in the left of the title bar ) than that program wouldn't release memory and eventually the machine would crash, so yeah I guess it's possible. But specifically no I haven't seen any problem though I nearly always use the X widget, occasionally I use the File Menu, I got out of the habit of using the window widget - don't think I've used it at all since the trouble I mentioned on UNIX. Have you tried looking for any lock files that FFox uses, perhaps one is left open causing your problem? how common a problem is it for you? Has it always been the same? Of course there could be any number of plugins or add-ons that might cause you problems too. You might try making sure you have 1 page with a simple file or an about:blank page before you shut down, see if the problem goes away. Scott > -- > ======================================================================= > Why do we have two eyes? To watch 3-D movies with. > ======================================================================= > Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF8JM45mBKdb7VQEcRAokzAJ9dcBUbejeQ2JuWOq2vKaOgniIQhgCdF1VC MMIzuORQ5tyMs80s5wxB2n8= =CMkF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
