firefox problem

David Pettersson david_pettersson at bredband.net
Fri Mar 31 18:38:15 UTC 2006


Jim Barrows skrev:
>
> On 3/31/06, *David Pettersson* <david_pettersson at bredband.net 
> <mailto:david_pettersson at bredband.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I saved my home directory under FC3 to a DVD. Then I installed FC5 and
>     moved my .mozilla file on the DVD to my new home directory. When I try
>     to start firefox I get an error msg telling me that firefox "is
>     already
>     running, but is not responding". There is no file in .mozilla to that
>     match *lock*. If I remove .mozilla firefox starts but then I lose my
>     valueable bookmarks and passwords.
>
>     Does anyone else have this problem? 
>
>
>
> I did.  a little 'sudo chown username:username -R .*' solved it.
>
>     I came to think of the problem with the DVD renaming files (so
>     .mozilla
>     is actually _mozilla on the DVD and I had to rename it when copying it
>     back). Do anyone have a list of filenames from .mozilla/firefox in FC3
>     to send me, so I can see how to rename them back if this should be the
>     problem?
>
>     Thanks
>     David
>
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> James A Barrows
Thanks,

but I already own all those files since I copied them from the DVD. (I 
tried anyway just in case and it didn't work). There is some other problem.

/David




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