Invisible Firefox process exists some where even after the process is killed.

Siju George sgeorge.ml at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 05:40:11 PDT 2010


Hi,

Now after the recent build/install world on amd64 my firefox freezes often.
When firefox is up this is the process

dfly-vmsrv# ps aux|grep firefox
sgeorge     862  0.0  5.5 262108 163944  v0  SL    5:42PM   0:40.03
/usr/pkg/lib/xulrunner/xulrunner-bin
/usr/pkg/lib/firefox/application.ini
root        884  0.0  0.0   444  300   0  RLM+  5:51PM   0:00.00 grep firefox
dfly-vmsrv#

When the firefox freezes i either destroy the window or kill the above process

But when i start firefox again i get this error.

"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."

There is no process corresponding to firefox in ps aux when this happens.

I have to restart my system once in 40-60 minutes to use firefox :-(

Kernel is 2.7-DEVELOPMENT DragonFly v2.7.3.1245.gb5ef8-DEVELOPMENT #0:
Wed Oct  6

Thanks

--Siju





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