I have came across this problem, are you running netscape as root and/or more
than one occurence of it?

Matt Luettgen

>I have a problem.  I am running Mandrake 8 and when I run Netscape, I
>get the box that says I have a .netscape/lock file, but when I go to
>check, that file does not exist.  I do not know where to look next.  The
>only thing that I can think of is that there is an entry in the
>/proc/locks file that has not changed through many reboots.  Is there a
>way to clear out that file?
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>Thanks,
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>Gene
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