mozilla profile in use

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 13 January 2003 9:08 am, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Collins wrote:
> >Mozilla expert wanted, please!
> >
> >I haven't made any changes since last reboot, and and shutdowns were
> >normal, but...
> >
> >Now mozilla won't start.  I get the profile dialog box, and mozilla
> >says the default profile is in use.  How do I fix this?
> >
> >Sure, I can create another profile, but why should I need to do this?
>
> Did moz crash? Could be a lock file somewhere. Or maybe your wm is
> remembering that moz was running and there is some process running. ps
> -e should show mozilla-bin or something. If not, then maybe the lock
> file (sorry, don't know where or what it's called.)

The name of the file is 'lock' and it's located at:


/home/<youruserid>/.mozilla/Default User/<very strange name>/lock

Just   'rm lock'



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