mozilla profile in use

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 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

Additionally, in the same directory, there is a file called XUL.mfasl
which can get corrupted leading to mozilla instability.  Once you've
verified that mozilla isn't running (check the output of ps) you can
safely move/delete that file, and it will be regenerated the next time you
run mozilla.  This has saved my ass a bunch of times when i thought the
entire profile was corrupted.

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