Problem with Mozilla Firefox in Linux. 1091

Dan Espen

Hi again Dan, First of all, please accept my sincerest apologies for goofing up while supplying the mozilla directory path.

Actually, I have to tell you guys that my main domain of work is ASIC verification (I code in Verilog) and I am not too good at Linux internals etc. So, please bear with me if I fumble a bit here or there at times.

The correct path where the mozilla browser is installed is:

home-amit-.mozilla (the dir name starts with a . (dot))

Now, for some fresh inputs: starting from the home dir, the lock is found at this location:

A ll command here gives (copy-pasted output):

total 4164 -rw------- 1 amit wheel 207835 May 8 2006 history.dat -rw------- 1 amit wheel 1443 May 8 2006 cookies.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 amit wheel 512 May 8 2006 Cache -rw------- 1 amit wheel 39998 May 8 2006 localstore.rdf drwxr-xr-x 2 amit wheel 512 May 8 2006 Cache.Trash 127.0.0.1:26881 -rw------- 1 amit wheel 3687 May 7 2006 bookmarks.html -rw------- 1 amit wheel 18731 May 7 2006 history.mab -rw------- 1 amit wheel 3148 May 7 2006 panacea.dat -rw------- 1 amit wheel 7953 May 7 2006 prefs.bak -rw------- 1 amit wheel 7953 May 7 2006 prefs.js -rw------- 1 amit wheel 65536 May 7 05:36 cert8.db -rw------- 1 amit wheel 131072 May 7 05:36 key3.db -rw-r--r-- 1 amit wheel 3633449 May 7 05:14 XUL.mfasl -rw------- 1 amit wheel 4055 May 7 03:16 downloads.rdf -rw------- 1 amit wheel 194 May 7 02:29 44929395.s -rw-r--r-- 1 amit wheel 22019 May 7 02:17 impab.mab -rw------- 1 amit wheel 4245 May 6 07:06 mimeTypes.rdf -rw-r--r-- 1 amit wheel 15147 May 5 05:18 impab-3.mab -rw------- 1 amit wheel 131072 May 1 04:33 secmod.db -rw-r--r-- 1 amit wheel 23 May 1 00:12 URL.tbl -rw------- 1 amit wheel 8394 Apr 25 06:54 training.dat -rw------- 1 amit wheel 2320 Apr 15 01:51 abook.mab -rw------- 1 amit wheel 807 Apr 14 03:48 search.rdf -rw-r--r-- 1 amit wheel 477 Apr 14 03:46 mailViews.dat -rw------- 1 amit wheel 1607 Apr 14 03:46 panels.rdf

When I do kill -9 26881, bam! The running browser is end. This is expected, since ps -u amit also says that 26881 is the PID of mozilla-bin.

A file command on this lock gives:

As of now I have not touched this lock file.

I shall try out Robert's suggestion (after I finish this thread) and post the output as a reply to his last reply.

Thank you all, Amit.