when firefox (or mozilla) crashes i can kill the unresponsive window, so you can't "see" firefox anymore. when i try to open another firefox window i get a pop-up "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". as such, this would not be so tragic. but: firefox is crashing quite a lot recently (mostly when it comes across flash with sound, but that's another story, my sound is messed up) and most annoyingly i just cannot kill firefox. i've tried with killall -9 firefox-bin, kill -9 <pid of firefox>, pkill firefox-bin, the process firefox-bin continues to run. i *can* kill mozilla-launcher, but even then firefox remains open. is there any way to open another instance of firefox without restarting? just removing the lock file is *NOT* enough either!
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use killall firefox-bin then restart it
As I have miss read this bug I will reopen please provide a ps -A when you can not kill firefox completely.
here's a ps -A mozilla is also in the output, and (as I just found out) suffers from exactly the same problem as firefox. $ ps -A PID TTY TIME CMD 1 ? 00:00:00 init 2 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0 3 ? 00:00:00 events/0 4 ? 00:00:00 khelper 5 ? 00:00:00 kthread 7 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0 10 ? 00:00:00 khubd 49 ? 00:00:00 kapmd 89 ? 00:00:00 aio/0 88 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0 684 ? 00:00:00 kseriod 706 ? 00:00:00 kpsmoused 735 ? 00:00:00 ata/0 755 ? 00:00:00 reiserfs/0 957 ? 00:00:00 udevd 6530 ? 00:00:00 kjournald 8505 ? 00:00:00 syslog-ng 8543 ? 00:00:00 atd 8580 ? 00:00:00 hcid 8582 ? 00:00:00 sdpd 8590 ? 00:00:00 krfcommd 8635 ? 00:00:00 cupsd 8768 ? 00:00:00 sshd 8807 ? 00:00:00 cron 9033 tty1 00:00:00 agetty 9034 tty2 00:00:00 agetty 9035 tty3 00:00:00 agetty 9036 tty4 00:00:00 agetty 9037 tty5 00:00:00 agetty 9038 tty6 00:00:00 agetty 9066 ? 00:00:00 kdm 9069 ? 00:01:55 X 9070 ? 00:00:00 kdm 9089 ? 00:00:00 startkde 9131 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit 9134 ? 00:00:00 dcopserver 9136 ? 00:00:00 klauncher 9138 ? 00:00:01 kded 9143 ? 00:00:00 kxkb 9153 ? 00:00:00 kaccess 9154 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper 9156 ? 00:00:00 ksmserver 9157 ? 00:00:02 kwin 9159 ? 00:00:00 kdesktop 9161 ? 00:00:05 kicker 9163 ? 00:00:00 kbluetoothd 9165 ? 00:00:00 klipper 9169 ? 00:00:00 gkrellm2 9172 ? 00:00:00 korgac 9176 ? 00:00:01 kweatherservice 9189 ? 00:00:00 konsole 9190 ? 00:00:03 konsole 9191 ? 00:00:00 kuake 9193 ? 00:00:00 kwalletmanager 9195 pts/1 00:00:00 bash 9198 ? 00:00:00 knotes 9199 pts/2 00:00:00 bash 9202 pts/3 00:00:00 bash 9211 pts/4 00:00:00 bash 9216 pts/5 00:00:00 bash 9240 ? 00:00:00 kgpg 9270 ? 00:00:01 kopete 9271 ? 00:00:14 xchat-2 9279 ? 00:00:00 knotify 9313 pts/4 00:00:00 su 9324 pts/4 00:00:00 bash 9400 pts/5 00:00:01 mozilla-bin 9404 pts/5 00:00:00 mozilla-bin 9405 pts/5 00:00:00 mozilla-bin 9407 pts/5 00:00:00 gconfd-2 9408 pts/5 00:00:00 mozilla-bin 9441 pts/2 09:02:34 mprime 10994 ? 00:00:00 kio_file 11126 pts/4 00:00:00 emerge 11206 pts/5 00:00:05 firefox-bin 11210 pts/5 00:00:00 firefox-bin <defunct> 12759 ? 00:00:00 pdflush 13019 ? 00:00:00 pdflush 13884 pts/5 00:00:00 ps just in case you need it too, a pstree (just parts of it). firefox and mozilla were after kdesktop and mozilla-launcher, but after i killed mozilla-launcher i guess the fell 'back to the left'. init-+-6*[agetty] |-atd ... |-firefox-bin---firefox-bin ... |-mozilla-bin---mozilla-bin---2*[mozilla-bin] ... `-udevd
Works for me via Anarchy.
