Re: Firefox 1.5 makes only troubles

"Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:05:13 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.unix
Organization http://www.Federalist.com
Message-ID <[email protected]>
roN wrote:
> roN wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> till now I regret updating from 1.0.6 to 1.5 it only brings problems like:
>> I can't start Firefox anymore, I get the msg 'Firefox is already running,
>> but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the
>> existing Firefox process, or restart your system.'
>> I cannot find any running process and I restarted my Sys. no cange, what's
>> wrong?
>> Tank you!
> 
> Damn, how do I get it killed?
> This commands were executed directly one after te other... :(
> the PID is always cangeing, why the hell?
> reg@linux:~> ps aux|grep firefox
> reg       8237  0.0  0.0   2752   740 pts/1    R+   19:29   0:00 grep
> firefox
> reg@linux:~> ps aux|grep firefox
> reg       8242  0.0  0.0   2752   748 pts/1    R+   19:29   0:00 grep
> firefox
> reg@linux:~> ps aux|grep firefox
> reg       8246  0.0  0.0   2752   740 pts/1    R+   19:30   0:00 grep
> firefox
> reg@linux:~> ps aux|grep firefox
> reg       8269  0.0  0.0   2752   744 pts/1    R+   19:30   0:00 grep
> firefox
> reg@linux:~> ps aux|grep firefox
> reg       8273  0.0  0.0   2752   748 pts/1    R+   19:30   0:00 grep
> firefox
> reg@linux:~> ps aux|grep firefox
> reg       8277  0.0  0.0   2752   752 pts/1    S+   19:30   0:00 grep
> firefox
> reg@linux:~> ps aux|grep firefox
> reg       8281  0.0  0.0   2752   740 pts/1    R+   19:30   0:00 grep
> firefox
> reg@linux:~> ps aux|grep firefox
> reg       8285  0.0  0.0   2752   744 pts/1    R+   19:30   0:00 grep
> firefox
> reg@linux:~> ps aux|grep firefox
> reg       8289  0.0  0.0   2752   740 pts/1    R+   19:30   0:00 grep
> firefox
> reg@linux:~> ps aux|grep firefox
> reg       8293  0.0  0.0   2752   744 pts/1    R+   19:30   0:00 grep
> firefox
> reg@linux:~> ps aux|grep firefox
> reg       8297  0.0  0.0   2752   752 pts/1    S+   19:30   0:00 grep
> firefox
> reg@linux:~> ps aux|grep firefox
> reg       8301  0.0  0.0   2752   740 pts/1    R+   19:30   0:00 grep
> firefox
> reg@linux:~> 

Oh.  It's returning the PID of the grep process.  Looks like you have a 
stale lock file in your profile.

Rinaldi
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