[olug] linux firebird/phoenix lock file, recovering from crash

[Brian Wiese]

Just for the archives and to mention...

So I woke up this morning, turned my monitor on - only to find no video
signal.  That was disheartening, but still I reset the box and waited for
debian to restart.  When I went to launch Mozilla-Firebird, I got the
window:

"Select User Profile" dialog.  The only available profile was
"default", but when I click "Start Mozilla" it says (of course):

  Mozilla cannot use the profile "default" because it is in use.
  Please choose another profile or create a new one.

So I was looking for the lock file, and I had difficulty after looking in
an empty ~/mozilla-firebird/ and ~/mozilla/ directory, then found:

~/.phoenix/default/8jmsaiyd.slt/lock

that was it, delete and restart Firebird/Phoenix and back in business.

(still dont know how I lost video signal in the middle of the night)
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