Cannot open Firefox after closing her.

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 17:23:16 UTC 2007


On 08/03/07, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> wrote:
> On 2007-03-08 17:36, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Recently, I've found that I'm unable to open Firefox after I close the
> > program. I close Firefox with the X button on the Title bar. When I
> > try to open it again, I am confronted with this:
> > Firefox is already running, but not responding. To open a new window,
> > you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your
> > system.
> >
> > I've looked in /.mozilla/firefox/profile but there is no lock file.
> > Also, typing jobs at the command line shows me no jobs- not even
> > things that I know are running such as Opera and Kmail.
>
> jobs is a shell builtin to list the jobs that the shell knows about.
> The shell only knows about jobs (processes) that it started itself.
> Presumably firefox, Opera and Kmail were not started by the shell in
> which you typed jobs.
>
> Use ps -e (look in the man page for more options) to see all processes.
>
> > This problem is reproducable: I reboot, and I can open Firefox.
> > However, after close, it will not reopen. How can I kill Fx so that I
> > can restart it, without shutting down?
>
> My experience is that firefox takes quite a long time to exit.  So the
> answer is: just wait a while longer.
>

Acording to the time of these emails, it's been at least 45 minutes.
Maybe it really has finished exiting, but there is another problem?

Dotan Cohen

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