[vox-tech] Firefox and VNC

[Alex Mandel]

Norm Matloff wrote:
> I use VNC a lot.  I have now encountered an odd problem with Firefox in
> the VNC context.
>
> Recently I have tried to fire up (no pun intended) Firefox within VNC,
> I get a message "Firefox is already running, but not responding,"
> followed by a statement that I should close my Firefox window or restart
> the system.  But there seems to be no Firefox process running.  (Though
> I do recall that it "died a violent death" the last time I used it.)
>
> As to restarting the system, I seem to recall under some VNC versions
> one could do a "reboot."  But I don't see a way to do this under this
> verion, which is RealVNC.  Killing vncserver definitely does not work.
>
> This is all happening on the student lab machines in my department at
> UCD.  They're running Fedora Core 5.
>
> Any ideas?  Maybe there is some file which Firefox left there before,
> which needs to be deleted?
>
> Norm
>   
Maybe there's a lurking hung process. Check to make sure there isn't and 
if there is kill it.
ps -A
That usually solves that problem for me on both linux and windows and 
with much more than just Firefox.

Alex