This is basically correct. But I had deleted the strangely named directory that held the lock file and apparently that was the problem. I don't understand why this wasn't removed and recreated during the purge/install cycle. But its good now.
Thanks for replying. Richard
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom <kbloom@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 05:11:55PM -0800, jdnewmil@gmail.com wrote:
> That message indicates that a lock file is still present in a
> configuration directory in your home directory. I don't use
> Iceweasel, so I leave it to you to figure out which directory (I
> would guess .iceweasel) and file are involved, and delete the file.
It's .mozilla/firefox/*/.parentlock
--Ken
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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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