mozilla profile in use

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman
Mon May 17 11:43:08 PDT 2004


This happens to me fairly frequently.  The culprit seems to be
leftover java processes from the last time you started Moz.
Until these are killed off, Moz thinks that profile is still in
use.

Judicious use of 'ps -axlww' and 'kill' seem to do it for me.

++ kevin


On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, 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?
>
>



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