On Thursday 14 December 2006 17:48, Norm Matloff wrote: > I use VNC a lot. I have now encountered an odd problem with Firefox > in the VNC context. > > Recently I have tried to fire up (no pun intended) Firefox within > VNC, I get a message "Firefox is already running, but not > responding," followed by a statement that I should close my Firefox > window or restart the system. But there seems to be no Firefox > process running. (Though I do recall that it "died a violent death" > the last time I used it.) > > As to restarting the system, I seem to recall under some VNC versions > one could do a "reboot." But I don't see a way to do this under this > verion, which is RealVNC. Killing vncserver definitely does not > work. > > This is all happening on the student lab machines in my department at > UCD. They're running Fedora Core 5. > > Any ideas? Maybe there is some file which Firefox left there before, > which needs to be deleted?
Apparently ~/.mozilla/default/*/lock (the * is some randomly named directory, probably so named for security) --Ken -- Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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