[26906] in Athena Bugs
Re: 9.5.27 linux: firefox lockfile problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Jul 26 20:46:28 2006
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:46:00 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
To: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> wrote on Wed, 26 Jul 2006
at 18:53:59 -0400 in <20060726225359.GO661@multics.mit.edu>:
> > This suggests that there really is a firefox process already running
> > on the local machine, but that it cannot be contacted for some
OK, so upon review, it sounds like the Next Step when seeing this is
to run:
sh -x `which firefox`
and note the PID returned by testlock (being fed to kill) and then
look for that pid in the process table, with ps.
I supose it's possible that the second case (for which I submitted
the ls -lR) was slightly different for some reason, and I should
probably have compared the sh -x output to be sure...
--jhawk
