[vox-tech] Iceweasel that will not die

Richard Harke paleopenguin at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 22:37:13 PST 2011


This is basically correct. But I had deleted the strangely named directory
that held
the lock file and apparently that was the problem. I don't understand why
this wasn't
removed and recreated during the purge/install cycle. But its good now.
Thanks for replying.
Richard


On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom <kbloom at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:11:55PM -0800, jdnewmil at gmail.com wrote:
> > That message indicates that a lock file is still present in a
> > configuration directory in your home directory. I don't use
> > Iceweasel, so I leave it to you to figure out which directory (I
> > would guess .iceweasel) and file are involved, and delete the file.
>
> It's .mozilla/firefox/*/.parentlock
>
> --Ken
>
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> Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
> Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
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