TCH-Rob Posted March 22, 2004 Posted March 22, 2004 Hey gang, Everytime I start up Firebird (0.7) it asks to pick a profile, even if I have it checked not to. If I pick one listed it gives an error "Mozilla Firebird cannot use the profile "whatever" because it is in use. This happens even after I reboot my BSD box and restart X and KDE. I have to create a new profile everytime I want to open it. As it is I will not stop the program unless I have to as to not have to redo all of me preferences. Ideas? Quote
borfast Posted March 22, 2004 Posted March 22, 2004 Check your Firebird profile directory ( ~/.phoenix/default/<some.random.string>/ ) and see if there's a file named "lock" after you shutdown firebird. If there is, delete it. Firebird should start normaly using the default profile, after that. But it's strange, that file should be deleted automatically when you close Firebird. Try upgrading to Firefox and see if it fixes the problem. But check that lock file first, or it will lock you out of firefox too. Quote
TCH-Rob Posted March 22, 2004 Author Posted March 22, 2004 Looks like it worked, thanks Raul Thumbs Up Quote
borfast Posted March 22, 2004 Posted March 22, 2004 (edited) Glad it worked Which method did you use, by the way? Did you simply delete the file or upgrade to firefox? Edited March 22, 2004 by TCH-Raul Quote
schussat Posted March 22, 2004 Posted March 22, 2004 I think I read somewhere that the new nightlies of Firefox abandon the ~/.phoenix profiles and have much better profile management overall. That will be nice to see! Quote
TCH-Rob Posted March 22, 2004 Author Posted March 22, 2004 Raul, I deleted the file, I guess I can try upgrading to a more current version. Last time I tried there were dependencies issues, I feel more comfirtable with that now though so I might just give it a go. Quote
TCH-Rob Posted March 22, 2004 Author Posted March 22, 2004 (edited) OK, I have upgraded and I do not experience the issue anymore. I will say one thing though. Installing the port took over an hour. I wish it was a bit faster installing software on these systems. Edit: I can not visit half of the sites I go to using Firefox. I cant visit the mozilla firefox help site, upgrade themes or add extensions, the page loads in the status bar and then firefox shuts down. Edited March 22, 2004 by TCH-Rob Quote
borfast Posted March 23, 2004 Posted March 23, 2004 Rob, have you upgraded to a nightly build or the stable 0.8 package? About taking a long time, I don't know how Firefox works on BSD but it works like a charm on Linux. Did you have to compile it from source? Quote
TCH-Rob Posted March 23, 2004 Author Posted March 23, 2004 Raul, I do not have the latest nightly build. I just did a make install clean from my ports/www/firefox folder. Took a long time to process it. Quote
borfast Posted March 23, 2004 Posted March 23, 2004 I just visited Firefox's homepage and there's no official build for BSD - should have thought of that earlier... Anyway, if it took all that time, then it was probably compiling the program. I really don't know how to help you any further excpet telling you to visit Firefox online forums or perhaps some BSD forums and see if someone has the sollution for your problem. Quote
TCH-Rob Posted March 23, 2004 Author Posted March 23, 2004 Raul, I am thinking about waiting until there is a stable version to use for BSD, I will stick with Firebird for now as it is working. Quote
borfast Posted March 23, 2004 Posted March 23, 2004 Wise decision. "If it isn't broken, don't fix it!" Glad to see you're getting along on the *nix world Quote
TCH-Rob Posted March 24, 2004 Author Posted March 24, 2004 Agreed Raul, I think I will be with this OS for some time. If I could only get all of my Win games to work on it I would be in os heaven. Quote
borfast Posted March 24, 2004 Posted March 24, 2004 Try these: http://winehq.org http://www.transgaming.com/ Frank's Corner is also a great resource: http://frankscorner.org/ You have a how-to for installing Wine and also WineX Quote
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