Firefox doesn't start

[Adrin Jalali]

Yeah, thanks ;) :)

Andrew Farris wrote:
> 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.
>