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From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: "Firefox is already running" problem on 6.0
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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