Mozilla default profile problem

[Carl Parrish]

LOL glad I decided to read the entire thread this time instead of just
repeating good advise. <g>


On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 11:13, Alan Dayley wrote:
> On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:06, Alan Dayley wrote:
> > I was plugging in some stuff and hit the power strip switch while my
> > workstation was up.  It killed the power to it.  Well, Red Hat 8.0 uses the
> > ext3 filesystem and all checks that I know came up fine.  But..
> >
> > Now when I attempt to start Mozilla, which was open when the power was hit,
> > it prompts me to create a new profile because the default profile is "in
> > use" even though Mozilla is not running right now.  I don't know where to
> > go to force the default profile back to not "in use."  Anyone know how to
> > accomplish this?
> >
> > Alan
> 
> If I just look for the answer before I post a question here, I would stop 
> answering my own questions!
> 
> I found the answer here: 
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/csl/doc/faq/mozilla/index.html#removelock.faq
> 
> The lock file was in the default profile.  Delete it and I am now good to go.
> 
> Alan
> 
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