Hi, i have a small problem and i am not sure how i can solve it.
This is the case. I installed openSUSE 12.1 KDE and started off with autologin (?). After i installed everything i made my user password protected. After a re-login the problem started that everytime i start firefox it tells me that there is already a firefox instance running and i should close it.
But its not in the list if i am checking with the system monitor.
I did uninstall firefox in hope that will solve the problem, but after reinstall its the same. Funny thing is, if i start firefox via the terminal i starts up.
I am sure that firefox is in a saved session prior to the password change, but how can i get rid of that session?
The ip address is the system on which firefox is running, and the number following the “:+” is the PID of the firefox process.
If that process exists, but is not actually firefox, then try deleting the lock file.
There will also be a file “sessionstore.js” which gives the state of the last session. I think it is safe to delete that if you don’t want to resume where it left off.
Am Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:26:03 +0000 schrieb nrickert:
> Look in your firefox profile directory.
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> cd ~/.mozilla/firefox cd *.default
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> There’s probably a file “lock” there. In my case, it shows
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 rickert csci 22 Dec 15 06:28 lock →
> 192.168.254.101:+23136
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> The ip address is the system on which firefox is running, and the number
> following the “:+” is the PID of the firefox process.
>
> If that process exists, but is not actually firefox, then try deleting
> the lock file.
>
> There will also be a file “sessionstore.js” which gives the state of the
> last session. I think it is safe to delete that if you don’t want to
> resume where it left off.
Acutally after your response, i went radical. I just wiped the whole
mozilla folder.
It did work. So after all it had nothing to do with KDE and just simply
with firefox saving its own session. Interesting.
I just need to import my bookmarks and i am set.
Thanks for the tip (even if i did it more radical).
Am Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:25:17 +0000 schrieb DenverD:
> On 12/16/2011 02:06 AM, JoergJaeger wrote:
>> After i installed everything i made my user password protected.
>
> please tell what you mean by that…in what way did you protect your
> user password?
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> (yes, i see your problem is solved…still i wonder what you did because
> maybe i want to protect my user password also…)
Lol. maybe i was chosing the wrong word. I started off with no password
for my desktop at the installation of the system.
I enabled the password option for my user. Thats all. So protecting may
be a wrong wording.
But see, i got confused too. The solution was so simple but i did not
think about it. I was so sure it has something to do with KDE that it
came not to my mind that Firefox saves sessions too.
On 2011-12-16 04:26, nrickert wrote:
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> robin_listas;2418854 Wrote:
>> Are you using firefox as root???
> He ran that “ps aux | grep firefox” command as root.
doh! m:-)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2011-12-17 00:22, joergjaeger wrote:
> But see, i got confused too. The solution was so simple but i did not
> think about it. I was so sure it has something to do with KDE that it
> came not to my mind that Firefox saves sessions too.
I did think about that, but I thought it was something else, more
difficult. I got sidetracked perhaps with the root thing.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
