Bug#567415: iceweasel won't restart after it crashes

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 09:50:13AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> Mike Hommey wrote:
> >On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:55:32PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
> >>Package: iceweasel
> >>Version: 3.5.6-1
> >>Severity: important
> >>
> >>After Iceweasel crashes it refuses to restart - even in safe-mode -
> >>until I reboot the computer. Simply logging out and back in again
> >>doesn't clear the problem.
> >
> >Does it say something when it refuses to restart ?
> >
> >Isn't there a firefox-bin process still running ?
> >
> >Mike
> >
> 
> No. It just doesn't restart. There is no firefox-bin process
> running. However syslog shows:
> 
> 2010-01-29 09:49:16    transponder    kernel    [151666.119720]
> firefox-bin[17244]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00007fff546d4348
> error 14 in xulrunner-stub[400000+15000]

Is there a ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/lock file ? What happens if you remove
it ?

Mike