__/ [Walter Mautner] on Tuesday 20 December 2005 23:43 \__
> Nitewolf wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm using firefox 1.9.7 on Ubuntu 5.10
>
> Oh ... it's not even at alpha stage, but you got the early preview?
Finger slipped off the zero, I imagine. Still, it brought a smile to people's
faces.
>> sometimes when i surf, webpages freeze and when i force quit the window,
>> all of firefox windows shut and i can't get to reload Firefox again.
>> it claims that my profile is in use and i can't load that profile again
>> and asks me to create a new profile instead. new profiles will create
>> fresh new bookmarks which are blank and default settings
>>
>> the only way so far to solve the problem is i have to restart the whole
>> system. logging out and logging in again doesn't help.
>>
> There is probably a leftover lockfile or even stale socket. But then, try
> to gracefully kill firefox from a "terminal" window next time, so it can do
> the housecleaning before it exits.
> Try to fix the underlying problem, which might be "temporary failure in
> name resolution" at your ISP (change nameservers or setup your own caching
> dns), interrupted connections (complain) or just bad webpages.
Yes, go to .mozilla/<user>/<whatever>.slt and erase a file called lock or
locked if it is there. Also, as suggested before, you could kill the re-
maining processes, e.g. using 'top' (command-line) and then hitting 'k',
followed by the process number. 'ps -aux' is another option. Firefox is
actually trying to protect you from running simultaneous sessions, which
would have accumulated conflicting settings.
Getting Firefox into a working order is probably a more important issue.
Try upgrading.
>> i'm sure there's a way around it, does it not? is there anyway to recover
>> without rebooting? rebooting on linux is such an embarrassment
>
> Anyone?
I actually agree. There is never truly a reason to reboot, unless there is a
power outage, in which case it's involuntary. Restarting the window manager
is very rarely necessary.
Roy
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