Process error

[BoDiddley]

Greetings,

I got into a situation where iceweasel will not run because it says

"Iceweasel is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Iceweasel process, or restart your system."

Not only have I restarted my system but I have done both remove and purge on iceweasel. Yet, no matter what I try this same error message appears.

"ps xu | grep iceweasel | grep -v grep" returns nothing.

"ps axu or aux" shows no active process for iceweasel. Where else should I look?

Thanks.

[atreyu]

I'm not familiar with iceweasel - does it use lock files? I know in Firefox, you can remove a lock file from your .mozilla profile directory to alleviate a similar problem.

[fanderal]

I get the same message if I try to start Iceweasel too quickly (within a few seconds) after quitting it. Waiting a bit (maybe 15/20 seconds?) before restarting and the browser starts normally. Did the same, looking for the process, both in a terminal and the console, but nothing showed.

[BoDiddley]

Thanks atreyu, that did it. I deleted the Firefox folder under .Mozilla and that did the trick.

For anybody else listening in a (.) file as in .Mozilla is a hidden file you must "show hidden" in your user directory.

Thanks for your reply, as well - fanderal. I am back in business with Iceweasel.

Still learning the ropes.

[atreyu]

krikey! i didn't say to delete the whole ~/.mozilla dir, but heh, yeah, that would do it, too. of course you lose all your bookmarks and other firefox settings that way...

To delete the firefox lock file, you can typically do something like this:

rm -f ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.$USER/.parentlock

but glad you got it sorted.