Package: firefox Version: 1.5.dfsg-4 Followup-For: Bug #343532 I have run into the same problem as the previous correspondant - sometimes Firefox thinks that a profile is "in use" when it definitely is not. This is a pain since the profile contains info like cookies, passwords, etc that make browsing a lot easier.
I tried to figure out why it thinks the profile is "in use" and found two files: "lock" and ".parentlock" in the profile directory. Apparently these can be left around if FF doesn't exit cleanly, and if you then try to run FF on a different machine FF will tell you that the profile is in use. There should really be an option like OpenOffice.org has to steal the lock and continue, but until then it appears to be safe to delete the "lock" and ".parentlock" and re-run FF. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.4 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages firefox depends on: ii debianutils 2.15.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-7 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libidl0 0.8.5-1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System multi-head display ii libxp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System printing extension ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii psmisc 22.1-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime firefox recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
