Thunderbird Stalled
magicus
magicus at snet.net
Sun Apr 15 15:37:52 UTC 2007
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Jonathan Allen wrote:
> thunderbird now refuses to start, claiming that another instance
> of thunderbird is already running. Running ps -aux | sort | more reveals
> no such process, unsurprisingly, so there must be some lock file or
> process-id file somewhere within the user's filestore or home directory
> space that is causing the problem.
>
> Can anyone help me to unlock this unhappy user and tell me which file
> to pull so that they can get on with their email ?
Look in the user's home directory for something like:
/home/username/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default and there just might be the
lock file that you are seeking contained within.
hth
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