reassign 324791 firefox thanks * Jason Dorje Short ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Package: mozilla-firefox > Version: 1.0.6-3 > Severity: normal > > > Firefox crashed (actually my power went out and the whole system went down in > an instant). When I restarted it, it refused to use my default profile. > Naturally the lock file in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/lock was still there; > removing this fixed the problem. This lockfile pointed to 127.0.0.1:5371 but > there was no such process running. (After I removed the lock and restarted, > the new lock pointed to 5543; `ps -p 5543` showed that this was indeed > firefox.) I think I've seen this behavior before but I can't be certain. > > If I kill firefox manually (killall -SEGV firefox-bin) there is no problem. > Only if there's a computer restart does the problem show up (I haven't > tried killing the process and then restarting the computer before bringing > firefox back up; that might show the same symptoms).
I'm not sure what the bug is here. This is a common problem with lock files. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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