On Monday 05 February 2007 3:37:53 pm Anders Johansson wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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?
No.....I'm not killing them that way. In fact, the desktop often becomes
unusable, so I have to login via ctrl alt F2 or whatever to kill the
offending app.
> For firefox, while it isn't running, try running
>
> find $HOME/.mozilla/ -name lock -exec rm {} \;
>
> then try starting firefox again
No.....same problem.
> 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
Ok.....thanks.
Fred
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