From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 9 08:38:25 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BAB51065670 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:38:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeff.t@mail.com) Received: from mailout-us.mail.com (mailout-us.mail.com [74.208.122.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C70BA8FC12 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:38:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Aug 2012 08:38:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO blazon-pc.runningwild.local) [78.84.105.231] by mail.gmx.com (mp-us009) with SMTP; 09 Aug 2012 04:38:22 -0400 X-Authenticated: #76218138 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19/4fI8ddF/deyq3LxUuPgXT5kiBhSLPYtvpmahUH km/7gFcISCy8nE Message-ID: <502376FC.6030407@mail.com> Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:38:20 +0300 From: Jeff Tipton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111229 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Re: Linux-firefox does not start X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:38:25 -0000 On 08/09/2012 11:02, Manish Jain wrote: > > Hi, > > I installed www/linux-firefox from ports (FreeBSD 8.2/amd64). The > first time it ran, it did some checks. During this time there was an > unexpected power loss. Since then whenever I try to start > linux-firefox, I get the error message "An instance of firefox is > already. Close it or restart your system". But no solution works. I > even did a 'make deinstall' followed by 'make install clean' a couple > of times. All of no avail. > > Can anyone please point out what I need to do to get linux-firefox to > start ? > > > Thank you & > If firefox is really running, you may try killing it. To see if it's running, as root: ps aux |grep firefox One way of killing it (a "dirty one"): killall firefox OR look up the PID number for firefox (the first number from the left) that the above ps command shows you and kill Still struggling with getting Flash to work and that's why you installed linux-firefox instead of the native one? Sorry I didn't tell you last time more specifics than just following the Handbook, I thought it was detailed enough. How did you install the linux layer? Do you have linux kernel module loaded and the linproc filesystem mounted? -Jeff