[26905] in Athena Bugs
Re: 9.5.27 linux: firefox lockfile problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Jul 26 18:54:12 2006
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:53:59 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
To: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU> wrote on Wed, 26 Jul 2006
at 18:14:16 -0400 in <BE6EB788-CD83-4C60-94C8-305A03F59527@mit.edu>:
> I do appreciate your diagnostic efforts here, but maybe it would
> be more useful for me to write up a separate document with
> debugging tips, if lock file problems persist.
Maybe...but will someone reading the wrapper script be able to
find the document easily?
> This suggests that there really is a firefox process already running
> on the local machine, but that it cannot be contacted for some
> reason. Could there have been a previously running instance
> that hung? (I am also investigating problems causing the Linux
> version to hang).
No, definitely not. In the case of the first user, I checked with
ps. In the case of the second user, she walked into the SIPB office
and logged in on a machine that she had not previously logged in on.
--jhawk
