[ale] How could I have avoided this?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 21:49:27 EDT 2007


Delete the lock file -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_in_use

On 10/26/07, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> Today after my X11 session was murdered by an app, I couldn't restart
> Firefox because somewhere there was a marker that the old Firefox instance
> was still running, so the new one wouldn't start. Eventually I gave up and
> just blew away my '~/.mozilla/firefox' directory, taking with it my
> bookmarks, etc.
>
> How could I just have removed whatever tag was preventing Firefox from
> starting a new session?
>
> TIA.
>  - Mills
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>


-- 
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
CH:D 59



More information about the Ale mailing list