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Re: [LUG] Firefox won't start up

 

Richard Brown wrote:

> Bit of an urgent problem here in that overnight Firefox shut down. Came in 
> this morning and tried to run Firefox and it says:
> Firefox is already running but not responding. To open a new window you must 
> first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
> 
> I can't find a Firefox process and despite restarting twice I still can't open 
> Firefox! Any ideas anyone please?

IIRC, it runs as firefox-bin or mozilla-bin.

"ps aux |grep -bin"  might give you the pid to kill.

Failing that, check your run directory for a lock file, it could be that 
which is preventing it restarting.

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