Re: apm/acpi standy recovery question

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

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    On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:52:59 +0000, Brandon Niemczyk wrote:

    > 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

    I forgot to mention, yours won't be in the exact same dir but running:

    find ~/.mozilla -name lock -exec rm -f {} \;

    should delete the lock 

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