[plug] firefox problem

[Craig Ringer]

Jim Householder wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I just had firefox 1.0.7 crash.  It was sitting idle on another desktop 
> for a while.  When I returned focus to it, it crashed - vanished - and 
> the error reporting window appeared.
> 
> Now, when I try to restart it I get the following:
> 
> 755 22:48:09 local$ firefox/firefox
> 
> (firefox-bin:9982): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has 
> wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)

That sure shouldn't be fatal. It's more likely that firefox thinks it's 
still running, and has told the existing firefox process to open a new 
window. Alas, the existing process is hideously broken, and can't do so, 
causing the new one to hang waiting for a response.

This is only a guess, of course, but let's just say I have some 
experience with this problem...

Try:

     pkill firefox && sleep 1 && pkill -9 firefox

and see if you can start it after that.

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Craig Ringer