Gene:

   Have you looked in your .netscape directory in your /home.
Occasionally, the lock file is not cleared up when Netscape is
terminated, thus the file must be manually deleted.

   From my .netscape, the following exists

	lock -> 65.26.113.225:4910

and must be manually deleted now and then.

					-- Jerry Place
					-- CSTP

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Gene Dascher wrote:

> I am running netscape as myself and it happens the first time I run it.
> 
> BTW, I don't think that it has to do with the /proc/locks file.  I
> checked on my firewall system and there is a similare entry in the
> /proc/locks file on it.
> 
> Netscape still runs, but I don't have access to my history.  Not that I
> need it all that often, but it comes in handy once in a while.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gene
> 
> crash3m@crosswinds.net wrote:
> > 
> > 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?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >Gene
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
> 
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