Mozilla default profile problem

[Alan Dayley]

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 "i=
n
> 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=
=20
answering my own questions!

I found the answer here:=20
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