Firefox is already running, but not responding - Bug?

paulpeer · 04-17-2008, 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ernie

My Documents is a Windows folder (directory).

You're right that "My documents" is a Windows-folder. But it is on the Mandriva Flash stick and it's empty in the beginning. It does not inherit anything from the hard disk My Documents folder, it 'inherits' the documents from the /home/$USER folders. Yes, I've used it on other computers as well. It still has the same bookmarks!

ernie · 04-17-2008, 03:05 PM

OK, then the Mandriva Flash configuration is unique. Even Mandriva One does not include a My Documents folder (directory). Since I do not use the Flash release here I am unfamiliar with its characteristics. You may be best served to ask this question on the Mandriva Users Forum (this link gets you to the main portal page).

HTH,

Tinkster · 04-18-2008, 03:08 PM

Moved: This thread is more suitable in <MANDRIVA> and has been moved for a merge with http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...h-2008-635553/

XavierP · 04-18-2008, 04:53 PM

And has now been merged

mobeenkhan · 08-11-2008, 06:04 AM

Okay the solution is quite simple, this is what u have to do,
Open up a Terminal window,
type in this,
cd .mozilla/
cd firefox/
ls -a
cd (name).default (You'll see a folder with default extension)
ls -a

LOOK FOR "LOCK" file, if there, type in
rm lock
TRY RUNNING NOW, IF NOT THEN LOOK FOR "PARENTLOCK",
rm parentlock

Now Firefox should work !!!

Take Carezzz byaaaaa

paulpeer · 08-11-2008, 01:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mobeenkhan

Okay the solution is quite simple,

Thanks for the answer, but as you can see in the thread above, this did not solve the problem. In the meantime I installed Linux again from scratch, and since then the problem didnṫ show up again.

ksri07091983 · 08-21-2008, 08:17 AM

Hi,

I had the same problem. I did the following to remove the stale lock files and then opened firefox. it worked.

Code:

find $HOME/.mozilla -name lock -exec rm -f {} \;
find $HOME/.mozilla -name .parentlock -exec rm -f {} \;

run the above commands as the user who is having firefox problem.

In addition.. i moved my firefox binary (/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin) to /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin.org and kept my script (shown below) as /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin. so that the same problem will be solved background itself

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin script
if ! [ `id -u` = 0 ]
then
        chmod -R 777 $HOME/.mozilla/
        find $HOME/.mozilla -name lock  > /dev/null 2>&1
        if [ $? = 0 ]
        then
                rm -f `find $HOME/.mozilla -name lock` 2> /dev/null
                rm -f `find $HOME/.mozilla -name sessionstore.js` 2> /dev/null
                rm -f `find $HOME/.mozilla -name .parentlock` 2> /dev/null
        fi
fi

/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin.org $*

You can try this out. But dont mess up if you are not clear what is happening..

Thanks

Sridhar

GlennsPref · 08-21-2008, 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ksri07091983

Hi,

I had the same problem. I did the following to remove the stale lock files and then opened firefox. it worked.

Code:

find $HOME/.mozilla -name lock -exec rm -f {} \;
find $HOME/.mozilla -name .parentlock -exec rm -f {} \;

run the above commands as the user who is having firefox problem.

In addition.. i moved my firefox binary (/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin) to /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin.org and kept my script (shown below) as /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin. so that the same problem will be solved background itself

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin script
if ! [ `id -u` = 0 ]
then
        chmod -R 777 $HOME/.mozilla/
        find $HOME/.mozilla -name lock  > /dev/null 2>&1
        if [ $? = 0 ]
        then
                rm -f `find $HOME/.mozilla -name lock` 2> /dev/null
                rm -f `find $HOME/.mozilla -name sessionstore.js` 2> /dev/null
                rm -f `find $HOME/.mozilla -name .parentlock` 2> /dev/null
        fi
fi

/usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin.org $*

You can try this out. But dont mess up if you are not clear what is happening..

Thanks

Sridhar

Thank you for your solution,

regards, Glenn

ksri07091983 · 08-22-2008, 01:24 AM

Hi Glenn,

you are most welcome. But did that solution worked ???

Thanks

Sridhar

GlennsPref · 08-22-2008, 03:00 AM

Not as it is, I have /usr/lib64/firefox

But it looks like it, I never get lockups in ff.

regards, Glenn

paulpeer · 08-31-2008, 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ksri07091983

Hi,

I had the same problem. I did the following to remove the stale lock files and then opened firefox. it worked.

Thanks for the answer, but as you can see in the thread above, this did not solve the problem. In the meantime I installed Linux again from scratch, and since then the problem didnṫ show up again.

CyberScann · 10-09-2010, 06:07 PM

the command "ps -A | grep firefox" is case sensitive if you look at the ps --help there are a lot of letters and the upper case perform different functions then the lower case ones do hope this helps

tonyh1 · 03-05-2012, 12:04 PM

>>>This seems to be caused by a corruption in the user's Firefox profile.
>>>First stop Firefox (and you may as well delete lock files).

ps aux | grep firefox

>>kill any processes you find..

kill -9 "nnnn" (process number = nnnn)

>>>remove lock files
cd ~"username"/.mozilla/firefox/uuhu32gf.default/ (or whatever your profile directory is)

ls -alh
rm lock
rm .parentlock
rm sessionstore.js

>>>Now rename the ini file which selects your corrupt profile at firefox startup (so firefox will no longer find "profiles.ini").
cd ~username/.mozilla/firefox/
mv profiles.ini not_profiles_ini

[fyi: profiles.ini contained:
cat not_profiles_ini

[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=uuhu32gf.default]

In the absence of profiles.ini, when you restart Firefox (and it will start now) firefox will create a new profile and profiles.ini file. The name of the new profile will be visible in >
ls ~username/.mozilla/firefox/

Suggest then copying bookmarks from your old profile folder to the new one (unless someone has time to spare doing further definitive investigation to pin down the exact file causing the old profile to fail).

To restore bookmarks from old profile:
>>find your old bookmarks (the most recent LARGE "bookmarks-(date of last known good).json" file in this directory (ignore any more recent tiny / empty ones created by the corrupted or failed firefox profile).

ls ~username/.mozilla/firefox/"old_profile_directory"/bookmarkbackups/

Copy last good bookmark backups .json file to new profile:
cp ~username/.mozilla/firefox/"old_profile_directory"/bookmarkbackups/bookmarks-2012-02-29.json ~username/.mozilla/firefox/"new_profile_directory"/bookmarkbackups

Open Firefox (your bookmarks won't be there yet, unlike the old method of just copying a bookmarks file, this is a 2-stage process).

Click on bookmarks > show all bookmarks > import and backup > restore >>> choose the file / date from the menu which corresponds to the last-known good file (.json) that you just previously / copied restored.

Your old bookmarks will all now be available, although the "bookmarks toolbar folder (ie links/personal bookmarks, whatever you like to call it) may need restoring by dragging on your own favourites.

floppywhopper · 03-06-2012, 02:10 AM

Go "Main menu"
Go "Tools'
Go "System Tools"
Go "System Monitor"
find Firefox
click "End Process"

mgrivas · 03-12-2012, 08:56 PM

I saw that fine script from ksri07091983 in post #69.
However, I think there is a bug there.
If you try to run firefox for a second time, then it tries to delete the existing lock files, which will happily happen.
Then, you delete anything saved within the session, which means that if you have many windows and tabs open, next time you start you will not have them !
If you remove the

Code:

rm ... sessionstore.js

then you get the whole session again, that is all the windows and tabs you had last time (or is saved, anyway).
I would recommend add a line about if firefox runs already, then let it run as-is.
I would change your

Quote:

find

and

Quote:

if

commands into :

Code:

  ps -e | grep firefox &>/dev/null; let lastexit=$? 
  find $HOME/.mozilla -name lock  &>/dev/null ; let lastexit+=$? 
  if [ $lastexit = 0 ]

That way you run the rm set only if there is lock file AND the firefox does not run (i.e. first call).