Firefox crashes

rz1988 · 12-19-2008, 10:34 AM

Ubnuntu 8.10 dual boot installed and seems to work, but Firefox won't open. It says it is already open, please close and try again. Firefox is not open, have rebooted and tried killall firefox Nothing seems to help, other browser work fine(I don't remember the name). Any ideas? I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling and same problem.

repo · 12-19-2008, 10:37 AM

do
ps ax | grep firefox
try to open firefox in a terminal, and look for errormessages

teknik · 12-19-2008, 10:41 AM

you have to delete the lock and parentlock files (sometimes only one of them is there)

To do this, you need to go to your mozilla profile directory:

Code:

cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/(bunch of random characters).default/
rm lock
rm .parentlock

note: if the lock files arent in there, check other the directories in the ./mozilla/firefox/ directory.

rz1988 · 12-19-2008, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

do
ps ax | grep firefox
try to open firefox in a terminal, and look for errormessages

Tried that
roy@roy-2007laptop:~$ ps ax | grep firefox
6280 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep firefox

when i open in terminal I get the same open but not responding message

rz1988 · 12-19-2008, 10:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teknik

you have to delete the lock and parentlock files (sometimes only one of them is there)

To do this, you need to go to your mozilla profile directory:

Code:

cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/(bunch of random characters).default/
rm lock
rm .parentlock

note: if the lock files arent in there, check other the directories in the ./mozilla/firefox/ directory.

Tried that, I can't see any lock files

roy@roy-2007laptop:~/.mozilla/firefox/9tgkvvbz.default$ rm lock
rm: cannot remove `lock': No such file or directory
roy@roy-2007laptop:~/.mozilla/firefox/9tgkvvbz.default$ rm .parentlock
rm: cannot remove `.parentlock': No such file or directory
roy@roy-2007laptop:~/.mozilla/firefox/9tgkvvbz.default$

repo · 12-19-2008, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Tried that, I can't see any lock files

try this
cannabis:/var/lock# find /home/ -name lock
/home/repo/.mozilla/firefox/inpztry5.default/lock
cannabis:/var/lock#

teknik · 12-19-2008, 11:08 AM

yeah, they should be there... like I said, they may not be in that profile. So just a slight modification to what repo said:

Code:

find /home/(your user)/.mozilla/ | grep lock

should root them out. If they really aren't anywhere in .mozilla/, then I have no idea what's causing the problem. But I've had this happen a few times, and this always solved it.

rz1988 · 12-19-2008, 11:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

try this
cannabis:/var/lock# find /home/ -name lock
/home/repo/.mozilla/firefox/inpztry5.default/lock
cannabis:/var/lock#

Is that all on one line?

roy@roy-2007laptop:~/.mozilla/firefox/9tgkvvbz.default$ cannabis:/var/lock# find /home/ -nme lock
bash: cannabis:/var/lock#: No such file or directory

repo · 12-19-2008, 11:13 AM

in a terminal type
find /home/ -name lock

rz1988 · 12-19-2008, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by teknik

yeah, they should be there... like I said, they may not be in that profile. So just a slight modification to what repo said:

Code:

find /home/(your user)/.mozilla/ | grep lock

should root them out. If they really aren't anywhere in .mozilla/, then I have no idea what's causing the problem. But I've had this happen a few times, and this always solved it.

That pulled up lots of stuff, mostly with clock or block in the title not lock

I am going to try running from live cd and see what that does. I tried reinstalling ububuntu yesterday to no avail

rz1988 · 12-19-2008, 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

in a terminal type
find /home/ -name lock

roy@roy-2007laptop:~$ find/home/ -name lock
bash: find/home/: No such file or directory

repo · 12-19-2008, 11:17 AM

find /home/ -name lock
look at the space between find and /home

rz1988 · 12-19-2008, 11:20 AM

I logged in as guest and it works

rz1988 · 12-19-2008, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

find /home/ -name lock
look at the space between find and /home

roy@roy-2007laptop:~$ find /home/ -name lock
/home/roy/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/lock

repo · 12-19-2008, 11:23 AM

Quote:

I logged in as guest and it works

So you still need to delete the lock file in the users directory