Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:07:10 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux-firefox does not start Message-ID: <5023FC4E.6010708@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP318A7BA3FC277FF961E199F6CC0@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP318A7BA3FC277FF961E199F6CC0@phx.gbl>
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On 2012-08-09 10:02, 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 ? You need to remove the .parentlock file which is at /usr/home/"user"/.mozilla/firefox/random.default/
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