Help needed with Firefox?
 

When I execute Firefox is giving this message;
I checked in KSysGuard for a Firefox process running but there is none. So I don't know where this process is running or how to even find it so I can kill it.

Jose

Wow, and I thought *I* had problems running Firefox in Mandriva! Just for the record, I have Mandriva 10.1 and got Firefox 1.0.7 running alright. That's here:http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...ux-i686/en-US/
The thread with my woes is here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=394822

And for your problems: Try using a terminal or console and typing "ps -aux" to print running processes. It shows up on mine as both "firefox" and "firefox-bin".
However, I get the distinct impression that Firefox is in fact not running, but this is a carryover from Mozilla (Firefox allows multiple instances, but Mozilla balks and demands you use a different profile if you try to start more than two instances of it). That's all *I* know, anybody else?

Open a console and type in top. This will give a list of all running processes. Look for Firefox and take a not of the PID number (should be in the far left column).

Then type in kill pid <pid number> - Firefox should no longer be running. Check it with top again.

This should all be done as the user.

I did the instruction "top", like you recommend Xavierp and a list of processes appears in console. I observe for a while, looking for Firefox or at least something close to that but I couldn't find anything. So, apparently this is telling me that there is not a Firefox process running.

Jose

If you run "ps -aux | grep -i firefox", you will get a list of all processes related to firefox. Kill each one using the kill command e.g. "kill 5919". 5919 in this instance is the job number.

This is the message I get when I type that command in konsole;

Jose

I get that as well, but it still lists the firefox processes.

If you start here:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser_will_not_start_up

you may get to a solution.

reddazz,
for me it doesn't list any process just the error message.

devcefai,
Thank you for the link. I'm going to check it out as soon as I get a chance.


Update:

That link you posted devcefai definitely provide me with the answers I was looking for. Originally when the problem with firefox began, the little profile manager windows was showing prompting me to select or create a new profile. I selected a few times to create a new profile but always was giving me an error that "permission was denied" to access ~/.firefox
directory. Perhaps because I was log in as root when I created it. Reading through those pages I found that you can execute "Profile Manager" from console and even better, you can have root rights and still execute profile manager. This is what I did to create a new profile and everything start it working correctly. Thank you

How can I change the firefox instance that I install in my machine from, To the regular user rights

because I screwed by installing the software while I was log in as root.

Jose

I just wanted to say THANK YOU to all of you guys that help with my problem. Everything is working the way it was intended at the beginning.

Jose