Re: Iceweasel run-lock stuck

[Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

On 05/21/2013 07:33 AM, Curt Howland wrote:
> Dear Debianistas,
> 
> Up to date Wheezy, I can't start Iceweasel. Every time I try it gives
> an error, "Iceseasel is already running and not responding. Stop the
> existing session or reboot."
> 
> Trouble is, there isn't any running Iceweasel, and I just started the machine.
> 
> Logging in as another user, Iceweasel works just fine.
> 
> At this point, I assume that the run-lock file has been stuck "on",
> and when started Iceweasel sees this lock file and quits.
> 
> I did "find . -name *lock* -print" but there was no file that looked
> anything like an Iceweasel, Firefox, or Mozilla, lock file.
> 
> Any ideas?
>
wtopa@dj:~$ bugs iceweasel


Retrieving bug reports... Done


Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done


serious bugs of iceweasel (-> ) <marked as done in some version>


 #696041 - ia64 (Itanium) Mozilla JS engine needs pointers have their
high 17 bits cleared (Fixed: iceweasel/10.0.12esr-1+nmu1)

 #692053 - [ia64] Iceweasel 10.0 (and above?) randomly stops responding,
eating 100% CPU (Fixed: iceweasel/10.0.12esr-1+nmu1)

grave bugs of iceweasel (-> ) <unfixed>


 #703472 - iceweasel freezes on some site due to bad handling of mailcap
file

 #703071 - CVE-2011-1187, CVE-2012-0475,
CVE-2013-{0773,0775,0776,0780,0782,0783} (Fixed: iceweasel/19.0-1)

 #704019 - iceweasel: Iceweasel Crashes upon loading pages using
JavaScript

 #674908 - [sparc] iceweasel: JavaScript crash on some sites


serious bugs of iceweasel (-> ) <unfixed>


 #705067 - FTBFS on powerpc: Missing WebRTC entries in configure.ac


 #708765 - iceweasel: FTBFS with gawk


Summary:


 iceweasel(8 bugs)

Get firefox as Klaus suggested

HTH

Wayne
> Thank you.
> 
> Curt-
> 
>