[vox-tech] Firefox and VNC

[Alex Mandel]

Alex Mandel wrote:
> 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.)
I need to read more carefully, you may need to look at the process list 
as a higher level user.
sudo ps -A

Or as Ken noted some random temp file.
>>
>> 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
Also give safemode a shot.
firefox -safemode
I think(but could be wrong)

Alex