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Jesse Sheidlower writes:

>  > >When I try to launch Firefox, I get a message reading "Firefox is
>  > >already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you
>  > >must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your
>  > >system."
>  > >
>  > You've probably got a stale lockfile. Search for "*lock*"
>  
>  As I said in my original message, "The only FreeBSD-related
>  message about this that I found talks about deleting lock
>  files in ~/.mozilla, but I don't have any Firefox lock files."
>  I don't have any Mozilla lock files either, for that matter.

	May we see the output of:

	ps -ax

	run as root?


					Robert Huff