From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 9 11:08:42 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87EDC106566C for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:08:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ahmed@aossama.net) Received: from smtp.aossama.net (smtp.master-zone.net [196.218.210.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A828FC0A for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:08:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.aossama.net (unknown [192.168.0.203]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ahmed) by smtp.aossama.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9F5323EB0 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 13:00:32 +0200 (GMT-2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:00:32 +0200 From: Ahmed Ossama To: In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: X-Sender: ahmed@aossama.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.1 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 11:08:42 -0000 Your profile might have been damaged while it was being checked and the power loss occurred. Try $ mv .mozilla/firefox/ .mozilla/firefox.bak and start firefox again. On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 13:32:02 +0530, 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 & --- Best Regards, Ahmed Ossama