On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 10:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got the same problem once when I was working on mozilla and due to some > power problem the system suddenly boots up and when I again started > mozilla it gave me the same user profile problem and then I solve it as > follows: > > There is a .mozilla directory in ur home directory go to that. This will > contain all the user profile which u have made for ur mozilla to work > with. Then go to the directory of ur profile( the one that is creating the > user profile problem). This dirsctory in turn again contins another one go > into that one.Here when u do ls -l u will see some files and directories. > There will be a file(which will be blinking) of name lock and that will > representing a link towards the loopback address. This lock file will be > created whenever u opens ur browser for a particular profile and whenever > u exists normally it will automatically remove but on accidently closing > mozilla it remains there and then creating problem whenever u start it > again. Thus removing this file using rm perhaps will solve ur problem > because it has solved for mine.
To clearly explain the above: Gecko engine based browsers including all versions of mozilla, firefox, kmeleon, galeon, epiphany etc. have following directory structure for the preference settings: Taking specific case of galeon on linux $HOME/.galeon/mozilla/<profile name>/ The lock file is created in this directory for the instance of browser running with <profile name>. In case of file system is not cleanly unmounted like in case of power failure, this lock file still remains which does not allow another instance of browser with same profile to run. regards Supreet _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
