On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:34:57 GMT, carl wagner wrote:

> "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"
>
> What, I do is to open a console enter ps -ax to see whats processes are
> running than kill -9 the firefox process #

My SWAG, you are running KDE, and have Restore previous session set in
On Login under Session Manager under KDE Components in the KDE Control Center.

carl wagner writes:

>After installing spring 2007 i586

>I started getting a firefox error: as follows

>"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"

>What, I do is to open a console enter ps -ax to see whats processes are
>running than kill -9 the firefox process #

killall mozilla-firefox-bin

or killall -9 mozilla-firefox-bin
if the first does not work.
Or ctrl-esc, select firefox and then kill button.


>I was wondering is there an easier way to resolved this problem?

>CW

carl wagner wrote:
> After installing spring 2007 i586
>
> I started getting a firefox error: as follows
>
> "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"
>
> What, I do is to open a console enter ps -ax to see whats processes are
> running than kill -9 the firefox process #
>
> I was wondering is there an easier way to resolved this problem?

From a terminal window, pkill firefox is easier than looking up
the processes with ps and then using kill.

man pkill

Cheers!

jim b.


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