Problem with Mozilla on Red Hat Linux

[Carrot44]

Every time I try to start more then one browser up it wants to create another profile. I know there has to be a way around this but how.

Ken

 

[sciencewhiz]

yep, I've seen that in Redhat 9. However, I only see it when I try to run it a second time and it hasn't finished loading the first one.

If it happens every time, just use Ctrl-N to create a new window (or Ctrl-T for a new tab).

 

[JustMike]

Check in ~/.mozilla for any files with the word "lock" in the name... do a 'killall mozilla' and remove the files with the word "lock" in the filename and try again.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Why do you want more than one instance running? Like sciencewhiz said, just hit CTRL+N for a new window.

 

[Carrot44]

Originally posted by: JustMike
Check in ~/.mozilla for any files with the word "lock" in the name... do a 'killall mozilla' and remove the files with the word "lock" in the filename and try again.

Are you saying destroy my install of Mozollia and reload it?

Looked and nothing with the word "locked"

 

[sciencewhiz]

try looking in the subdirectories also for a lock file

no he's not saying to destroy your install of mozilla. ~/.mozilla has all your user's preferences. If it's deleted, it will be regenerated. killall mozilla just kills all existing mozilla processes.

 

[drag]

Go to your terminal and run "ps -A"

Mozilla asks for a new profile when it is already running and you try to open up a new instance.

Look for a proccess called mozilla-bin or MozillaFirebird-bin (I think it gets truncated by the ps command to MozillaFirebird)

If it is there run:

killall mozilla-bin
or
killall MozillaFirebird-bin

Then run ps -A again.

If that doesn't work then try the kill command, You need the pid (proccess id number) for the proccesses. Sometimes there will be more then one, due to multithreading or something like that. So do the first one and work your way down.
for example:
kill 3128

then if THAT doesn't work then now we must kill with extreme prejiduce.

kill -9 3128

Look as the ps -A output and see what happens, if it doesn't work try it a couple more times.

Then it should be dead even if it is still there. It will be a zombie proccess and be meaningless.

You should be able to run mozilla now.

THis is the same as hitting ctrl-alt-del in windows and then trying to halt then kill a proccess.

Happens sometimes. ALso work for all other proccesses. (don't forget that you may have to kill all the threads of the proccess if ther is more then one pid for a single program.)

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: Carrot39

Originally posted by: JustMike
Check in ~/.mozilla for any files with the word "lock" in the name... do a 'killall mozilla' and remove the files with the word "lock" in the filename and try again.

Are you saying destroy my install of Mozollia and reload it?

Looked and nothing with the word "locked"

No.

You .mozilla file is just your local user setup. Deleting it would erase your settings and stuff. A lock file is something that is created when a program opens up, so that it knows not to open up more then one of itself to avoid problems with having multiple instances open.