[K12OSN] Firefox won't start for one user

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Sep 7 18:29:56 UTC 2006


Unless the bookmarks are important, just delete the ~/.mozilla folder.
Next login will recreate the default setup.

There is a lock file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/default<stuff> that is a link
to the socket. Delete the lock file and it should solve the issue more
cleanly.

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 14:12 -0400, Jim Anderson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a user who, no matter where he logs in, cannot start Firefox now.
> He gets a message that Firefox is already running.  We're using K12LTSP
> v.5.  Other users have no trouble starting Firefox.
> 
> Unfortunately, I am not able to be at the site.  I don't know if he
> somehow created another profile and I am unable to question him or view
> what he is doing directly.  There is someone at the site who I can talk
> through a fix.
> 
> Jim Anderson
> 
> 
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