Re: apm/acpi standy recovery question

From: Brandon Niemczyk (maccorin_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 11/30/03 

Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:52:59 GMT

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:14:16 -0500, jab3 wrote:

> 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?

[maccorin@localhost maccorin]$ find ~/.mozilla -iregex .*lock.*
.mozilla/maccorin/cijw7dxd.slt/lock

This is a guess, but your file is probably something like that 

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