[27719] in Athena Bugs
Re: Debathena: firefox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Wed Aug 10 00:05:53 2016
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 00:05:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: kbrent@mit.edu
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On Tue, 9 Aug 2016, kbrent@mit.edu wrote:
> System name: W20-575-16
> Type: x86_64
> Display type: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
>
> Shell: /bin/athena/bash
> Window manager: unknown
> Desktop session: ubuntu
>
> 1) What were you trying to do?
> open firefox
>
> 2) What happened?
> get an error saying :'firefox is already running, but is not responding.
> to open a new window, you must first close the existing firefox process,
> or restart your system' Tried killing firefox from terminal, same error.
> Tried sudo reboot, same error. error has persisted between multiple
> terminals (3 today, have also had this problem in past)
This is usually due to an unclean shutdown of firefox on a different
machine, due to the AFS home directory being shared across multiple
machines.
If you are sure you are not logged in somewhere else and running firefox,
the instructions at
http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=3906992 should
get firefox running again.
-Ben
