On Monday 05 February 2007 09:26, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> ANOTHER 64-bit problem, or I think it is. Some apps. like FireFox and
> OpenOffice come up with a warning about an instance of the app. already
> running, even though it isn't. FireFox is dead in the water - WON'T run.
> Openoffice will load, but then won't close so I have to kill it.
First of all, please stop using caps, it is annoying
Second, these applications have lock files. Am I right in thinking you are
killing them with kill -9, so they don't get a chance to remove their lock
files?
For firefox, while it isn't running, try running
find $HOME/.mozilla/ -name lock -exec rm {} \;
then try starting firefox again
For openoffice, I don't know why it won't exit, but it doesn't have any
problems on my 64 bit machine. If you start it from a console, does it give
you any error messages?
btw, it has a lock file too. While it isn't running, run
rm $HOME/.ooo-2.0/.lock
and it won't complain about already running anymore
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