Re: Iceweasel is already running ...

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

Hallo Albrecht,

please see inline comment


Albretch Mueller wrote, on 01/30/13 23:37:
> ~
>  Since I use a liveCD to go online as a user whose home dir is in a
> ramdisk section, I have a "yeah, sure! ..." attitude when it comes to
> enabling javascript or what have you
> ~
>  Once in a while I would go "init 2" remove and recreate that ramdisk
> home directory, but I get such "so und so is already running ..."
> errors. Such applications may have been leaving data in some other
> directories.
> ~
>  How can you know to which files or directories a certain application
> has written data to?
> ~
>  How can you debug/troubleshoot such issues?
> ~
>  thanks,
>  lbrtchx
> 
> $ iceweasel --no-remote
> 
> (firefox-bin:9617): atk-bridge-WARNING **: AT_SPI_REGISTRY was not
> started at session startup.
> 
> (firefox-bin:9617): atk-bridge-WARNING **: IOR not set.
> 
> (firefox-bin:9617): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry
> 
>  then I get a modal window telling me:
> 
>  "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."
> 
> $ ps aux | grep iceweasel
> knoppix   9643 11.2  1.1 248376 30088 pts/0    Sl+  17:25   0:01
> /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin --no-remote
> knoppix   9699  0.0  0.0   5136   740 pts/2    S+   17:25   0:00 grep
> --colour=auto iceweasel
> 
> $ sudo ps aux | grep iceweasel
> knoppix   9643  7.3  1.1 248376 30088 pts/0    Sl+  17:25   0:01
> /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin --no-remote
> knoppix   9701  0.0  0.0   5136   744 pts/2    S+   17:25   0:00 grep
> --colour=auto iceweasel
> 
> $ sudo ps aux | grep mozilla
> knoppix   9704  0.0  0.0   5136   740 pts/2    S+   17:25   0:00 grep
> --colour=auto mozilla
> 
>  after closing that "Iceweasel is already running ... " window
> 

the ps command doesn't need root privilege and you should looking for iceweasel
again (the square brackets circumvent the listing of the grep process itself):

$ ps axu | grep [i]ceweasel

and kill the remaining iceweasel processes. Indeed, it happens from time to time
that iceweasel or icedove keep running without a visible window.

> $ which iceweasel
> /usr/bin/iceweasel
> 
> $ iceweasel --version
> Mozilla Iceweasel 10.0.4
> 
> 

-- 
Best regards,
Jörg-Volker.