apm/acpi standy recovery question

From: jab3 (nowhere_at_foobar.com)
Date: 11/29/03 

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:14:16 -0500

Hello. I have an interesting problem. Recently I pushed the power button
lightly, which is supposed to put the laptop in either Suspend or Standby
mode. (I'm running RedHat 9.0 - in this case, GNOME) Well, I disconnected
the power cable and left the computer for a couple of days. Well the
battery ran out and has somehow played games with the apm (or maybe acpi)
recovery. (I personally think it went into suspend mode, recording the
information to disk) The problem I'm having is - when I try to run
Mozilla, it gives me a Select User dialog box, which happens when there is
a copy already running. And it says that there is a copy already running,
but that ain't true. So I'm wondering if there is some file saved on the
drive somewhere that is making Mozilla think that there is a copy loaded,
and I am wondering if someone knows what that file could be. (or whatever
could be the problem) I looked in the /proc directory, but the only thing
I noticed were a bunch of directories of process numbers with a period
preceding them. They all contained the same stuff in the directory though
(a nautilus exe link among other stuff). Anyway. Any ideas?

Thanks for any help,
jab3

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