Re: [vox-tech] Iceweasel that will not die
On 03/10/2011 07:16 AM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 22:37 -0800, Richard Harke wrote: >> This is basically correct. But I had deleted the strangely named >> directory that held >> the lock file and apparently that was the problem. I don't understand >> why this wasn't >> removed and recreated during the purge/install cycle. But its good >> now. >> Thanks for replying. >> Richard > > The strangely named directory contains all of your configuration -- > bookmarks, history, cookies, etc. I'm not sure why they use the > strangely named directory -- probably some sort of security through > obscurity. You saw how my use of a * circumvented that pretty easily. > > --Ken The strangely named directory is a profile directory. The reason it is named randomly is so you can have multiple profiles. The random names prevent different profiles from interfering with each other. I suppose they could have gone with profile1, profile2... but they went with random names. As for the purge/reinstall cycle. That only deletes system configuration files, never user configuration files. (which is where the problem was in this situation) Orson ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Iceweasel that will not die
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 22:37 -0800, Richard Harke wrote: > This is basically correct. But I had deleted the strangely named > directory that held > the lock file and apparently that was the problem. I don't understand > why this wasn't > removed and recreated during the purge/install cycle. But its good > now. > Thanks for replying. > Richard The strangely named directory contains all of your configuration -- bookmarks, history, cookies, etc. I'm not sure why they use the strangely named directory -- probably some sort of security through obscurity. You saw how my use of a * circumvented that pretty easily. --Ken ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Iceweasel that will not die
This is basically correct. But I had deleted the strangely named directory that held the lock file and apparently that was the problem. I don't understand why this wasn't removed and recreated during the purge/install cycle. But its good now. Thanks for replying. Richard On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:11:55PM -0800, jdnew...@gmail.com wrote: > > That message indicates that a lock file is still present in a > > configuration directory in your home directory. I don't use > > Iceweasel, so I leave it to you to figure out which directory (I > > would guess .iceweasel) and file are involved, and delete the file. > > It's .mozilla/firefox/*/.parentlock > > --Ken > > -- > Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. > Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. > http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/ > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Iceweasel that will not die
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:11:55PM -0800, jdnew...@gmail.com wrote: > That message indicates that a lock file is still present in a > configuration directory in your home directory. I don't use > Iceweasel, so I leave it to you to figure out which directory (I > would guess .iceweasel) and file are involved, and delete the file. It's .mozilla/firefox/*/.parentlock --Ken -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/ ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Iceweasel that will not die
That message indicates that a lock file is still present in a configuration directory in your home directory. I don't use Iceweasel, so I leave it to you to figure out which directory (I would guess .iceweasel) and file are involved, and delete the file. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Richard Harke wrote: I was having a lot of trouble with the browser, I decided to nuke all the cached stuff and start over. Under tools, I used the delete function to clear the caches. This didn't seem to clear everything. Finally I did an apt-get purge on iceweasel. Then shutdown and rebooted. Then I reinstalled using apt-get. But when I try to start iceweasel, I get a message that it is already running. I have done ps -A as root but I don't see anything that looks like iceweasel. I have also looked for a lock file but no luck. Does anybody have an idea? system is debian lenny and I use KDE Richard Harke_ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
