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