Bug#589474: /usr/bin/firefox: after a crash it is terrible. firefox not working again. A fix asap PLEASE !!!!

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:24:00PM +0200, yellow protoss wrote:
> Dear Mike,
> 
> Thank you. I am gonna test tonight and will report you the results of it.
> Regarding NFS, most people, i.e. universities, ... are using NFS for /home
> mounting and sharing.
> 
> Can 2 pc loged onto an account do firefox on both clients to the /HOME Nfs
> server? with this sort of locking.... I willl try to try that too. I recall
> that it was locked :( unfortunately

That's exactly the point of the lock: that you can't run the same
profile twice concurrently.

> When I was student I could do firefox on 2 pc at same time, on debian.

I really doubt that. The only way is to use a different profile (see -P
option)

> Regarding NFS still, I note that firefox is not working when I run it under
> client NFS. On the server it works, however on the nfs client /home, I get a
> red top bar on the firefox browser and cannot type anything into : http
> adresses. Is that normal?

Yes, sqlite doesn't work on NFS remote fs. See bug #526055.