Re: Iceweasel problem

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM, mitch <debianuser@mll.dissimulo.com> wrote:

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:07 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, mitch <debianuser@mll.dissimulo.com> wrote:
> > Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message below
> > started.
> >
> > "Iceweasel is already running, but is not responding. To open a new
> > window, you must first close the existing Iceweasel process, or restart
> > your system."
> >
> > Googled for reasons and possible fixes. Killed iceweasel processes.
> >
> > Still the error message persists.
>
> Try looking for (and removing) lock files in your iceweasel profile
> directory. Some may start with a dot. It looks like "lock" (a
> symlink) and ".parentlock" will be the offending files.
> Iceweasel/Firefox usually removes these when it exits, but depending
> on how you kill it, it might not have the opportunity.
>
> --
> Michael A. Marsh
> http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
> http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
> http://36pints.blogspot.com
>

Thanks. That was one of the tips I did find, the parentlock.

Removed it before killing all and Iceweasel will still not start.

This may be off topic a bit, but I have had similar problems. What is worse, when I would delete .parentlock and
restart it would forget all of my bookmarks (and be unable to load the archived copies).

I suspect I have other problems as well, in my profile, the search window stopped working. (But it works if I create a new
profile)