firefox reports "lock: permission denied"; doesn't start.
Bug #430250 reported by
Alex Mauer
This bug affects 4 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In karmic, with firefox-3.5, it refuses to start and displays a message box, "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." In the terminal, "lock: Permission denied" is displayed.
Firefox is not running when this happens.
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an strace of firefox-3.5 shows the following around where the lock error is displayed: home/user/ .pulse- cookie" , O_RDWR| O_CREAT| O_NOCTTY| O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 30 "/proc/ self/exe" , "/usr/lib/ firefox- 3.5.3/firefox" ..., 99) = 30
[pid 16470] open("/
[pid 16470] fcntl64(30, F_SETLKW64, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}, 0xbfda94ec) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
[pid 16470] readlink(
[pid 16470] write(2, "lock: Permission denied\n", 24lock: Permission denied
) = 24