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Date:      Fri, 3 Feb 2006 21:28:58 -0500
From:      Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com>
To:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0
Message-ID:  <20060204022858.GA26289@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <17380.2101.767991.737963@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
References:  <20060203225927.GA5681@panix.com> <43E3E41F.7020801@intersonic.se> <20060203232618.GA5815@panix.com> <20060203174736.5dcf09bb@jacob.6texans.net> <20060204011346.GA2486@panix.com> <17380.2101.767991.737963@jerusalem.litteratus.org>

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On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:49:41PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> 
> Jesse Sheidlower writes:
> >  $ lsof | grep fire
> >  bash      59914 jester  cwd   VDIR       0,84        512 1530891 /usr/home/jester/.mozilla/firefox
> >  bash      90239 jester  cwd   VDIR       0,84        512 1530891 /usr/home/jester/.mozilla/firefox
> >  $
> >  
> >  I confess to not knowing exactly what the last means; I don't
> >  have any terminals open at ~/.mozilla/firefox, and if those
> >  first numbers are PIDs they don't correspond to any running
> >  processes.
> 
> 	So what happens if root does:
> 
> 	$ kill -KILL 59914 90239

Then two shell windows, that had previously been in that
directory, vanish, and "lsof | grep fire" shows nothing.

However, it doesn't change my inability to launch Firefox,
I'm afraid.

Thanks.

Jesse Sheidlower



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