OK, so I bin running into this thing now and again:
"Sometimes when you try to start Firefox, it warns you that Firefox is
already running. The message looks like this:
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."
When you search the Web, you get TWO pieces of advice.
The first is to
ps -aux | grep firefox
to find the errant firefox process (and then kill it.)
The second is to rid the lock and .parentlock files in
~/.mozilla/firefox/[Profile Name]/.
Ha. What if BOTH of these don't work?
"But, Whil, why might NEITHER of these work?" you ask.
Well, gentle reader, it's because the profile.ini file in /.mozilla is
pointing to a location that is not accessible. Say, because you're
keeping your profile data on a share on a server, and you're currently
not connected to the network. Silly rabbit.
Yeah, you're supposed to be able to have more than one profile in
profile.ini, and flip a flag indicating that you want the Profile
Manager to ask you which profile is to be used. But "Sometimes that
doesn't work too well."
So an alternate solution is to keep two copies of profile.ini in your
~/.mozilla folder:
profile_local.ini (points to a local profile folder)
profile_remote.ini (points to the remote profile folder)
I'm posting this mainly so that I have a record of what I did the next
time it bites me, but also maybe that it'll help someone else down the road.
Whil
Pat Paulsen for President.
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