firefox refuses to start and pretend to be already running
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
firefox (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Here are the messages
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.
(firefox-bin:2686): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
Gtk-Message: (for origin information, set GTK_DEBUG): failed to retrieve property `GtkTreeView:
I have had to find the way for changing default browser in order to be abble to send this report (with firefow as default, no report could be sent.
My system results from an update of xubuntu 904 to xubuntu 910
Maybe the minor environment error about colour installation results in a wrong error treatment doubling the call to firefox ??
Note that thunderbird also pretends to be called twice but does start
(thunderbird-
ProblemType: Bug
AplayDevices:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC269 Analog [ALC269 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf7eb8000 irq 16'
Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC269'
Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,
Controls : 12
Simple ctrls : 7
Date: Wed Dec 22 14:56:21 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 901
Package: linux-image-
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
RelatedPackageV
linux-
linux-firmware 1.26
SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic i686
WpaSupplicantLog:
dmi.bios.date: 05/13/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 2001
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 901
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: x.xx
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTek Computer INC.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: 901
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Triaged |
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Confirmed |
standard users may have the bug without being able to report because of default reporting process through failing firefox call
I may not be the only guy with this problem