Firefox doesn't start

[Andrew Farris]

Adrin Jalali wrote:
> Hi there, since I've updated my firefox I can not start it. It says :
> 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.
> 
> even when I start it with -safe-mode or -no-remote switches. and
> #ps -A | grep firefox
> gets no result.
> 
> I have these packages :
> firefox-3.0-0.beta2.16.nightly20080206.fc9.i386
> xulrunner-1.9-0.beta2.16.nightly20080206.fc9.i386
> 
> Best,
> adrin.

That probably indicates your profile is marked in use, or its not found.  Try 
using -ProfileManager and see if creating a new one gets it running.  If so, 
then there is a lock somewhere on the profile, but I don't know how that is 
done, you'd need to get it unlocked.

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