Bob S wrote:
On Saturday 01 December 2007 03:00:36 am Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Running 10.3 64 bit after a new install. Saved the /home directory for
myself and two users. Moved all of the pertinent stuff (.kde & .mozilla)
from a 10.2 install into the repective new /home directories on 10.3.
Everything works fine for myself and one of the users. For the other user
Firefox cannot be started and comes up with a message the Firefox is
already running and it must be closed first. Firefox is installed
globally.
I ran system guard and there is no sign of Firefox (mozilla) running.
I've tried everything I can think of including wiping that user's /home
directory and re-importing it. Can't find anything. Asking for
ideas/suggestions here. Anybody have any?
There's a lock file.
From the user's account:
find ~/.mozilla -name "lock" -print
will find it for you.
Thanks for replying Aaron,
It would if it were there. Sadly it is not.
Do you (or anybody) know if it is possible to uninstall Firefox for just a
single user and reinstall new?
Remember... Linux is a "work-alike" for Unix; both are
multi-user systems. YOUR data has nothing to with the
installation or absence of any program.
For example, if I removed vi from an HP-UX system, and
replaced it with vim and gvim, should every user on that
system lose their personal vi configuration files?
Of course not! Users expect their configuration files
to endure, even if software is replaced. Personal application
data is stored in your home directory, NOT the program's
directory (thats the sort of thing which is practiced
by people who program on single-user toy operating
systems, like those sold by a certain company in
Redmond, Washington, USA).
So, uninstalling the software won't do anything for any user.
So, the next question is, how do you get rid of your
messed up configuration?
$ cd ~
$ mv .mozilla .mozilla-old
(i.e. you're renaming that directory)
By moving, rather than REmoving .mozilla, all of
the files are still around if you want to grab
something out of them later.
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