On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Monday 13 January 2003 9:08 am, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Collins wrote: > > >Mozilla expert wanted, please! > > > > > >I haven't made any changes since last reboot, and and shutdowns were > > >normal, but... > > > > > >Now mozilla won't start. I get the profile dialog box, and mozilla > > >says the default profile is in use. How do I fix this? > > > > > >Sure, I can create another profile, but why should I need to do this? > > > > Did moz crash? Could be a lock file somewhere. Or maybe your wm is > > remembering that moz was running and there is some process running. ps > > -e should show mozilla-bin or something. If not, then maybe the lock > > file (sorry, don't know where or what it's called.) > > The name of the file is 'lock' and it's located at: > > > /home/<youruserid>/.mozilla/Default User/<very strange name>/lock
Additionally, in the same directory, there is a file called XUL.mfasl which can get corrupted leading to mozilla instability. Once you've verified that mozilla isn't running (check the output of ps) you can safely move/delete that file, and it will be regenerated the next time you run mozilla. This has saved my ass a bunch of times when i thought the entire profile was corrupted. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
