Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use
On 5/8/05, Stephen R Laniel <steve@laniels.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:03:03PM +0530, Deboo Geek wrote:
> > I changed the username of a user with the usermod command and also
> > changed the home dir name to the new username, as well as any
> > permissions etc. Now when I run firefox, it asks me to select one of
> > the listed profiles but if I select any of the two, it says that the
> > profile is already in use (even the default profile) and I should
> > create a new one or select another. What do I need to do? This is
> > under Debian testing.
>
> Ordinarily I've found that deleting a lockfile (e.g.,
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/[profile dir]/lock) will get rid of this
> error. Let me know if that does the trick here.
Strange, but there's no lock file/dir under the profile dir. And none
under /var/lock too. Does it have some other name?
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