On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM, mitch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:07 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, mitch <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message below > > > started. > > > > > > "Iceweasel is already running, but is not responding. To open a new > > > window, you must first close the existing Iceweasel process, or restart > > > your system." > > > > > > Googled for reasons and possible fixes. Killed iceweasel processes. > > > > > > Still the error message persists. > > > > Try looking for (and removing) lock files in your iceweasel profile > > directory. Some may start with a dot. It looks like "lock" (a > > symlink) and ".parentlock" will be the offending files. > > Iceweasel/Firefox usually removes these when it exits, but depending > > on how you kill it, it might not have the opportunity. > > > > -- > > Michael A. Marsh > > http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh <http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/%7Emmarsh> > > http://mamarsh.blogspot.com > > http://36pints.blogspot.com > > > > > Thanks. That was one of the tips I did find, the parentlock. > > Removed it before killing all and Iceweasel will still not start. > > This may be off topic a bit, but I have had similar problems. What is worse, when I would delete .parentlock and restart it would forget all of my bookmarks (and be unable to load the archived copies). I suspect I have other problems as well, in my profile, the search window stopped working. (But it works if I create a new profile) Stuart
