Hi Aki,

It appears there is conflict between the configuration file
locking scheme used in Firefox and Thunderbird and the AFS locking
implementation.

I've installed a fix for the problem on beebalm.  Can you please
try it out and report back?   You should be able to do...

 thunderbird &
 unlog
 [exit thunderbird]
 klog
 thunderbird &

now.

steve
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 > ---- Original Message ----
 > From: Akikazu Hashimoto via UW-HEP Help System <help@hep.wisc.edu>
 > 
 > One more diagnostic:
 > 
 > when I "quit" (using the "file" menu) and restart firefox, I get the 
 > error message
 > 
 > "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new 
 > window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart 
 > your system."
 > 
 > This seems to be an indication that lock files are not handled very well 
 > by firefox, and since both thunderbird and firefox are descendent of 
 > mozilla, there is something related going on.
 > 
 > At the very least, the fact that firefox lock files needs to be deleted 
 > manually is something that I think should be fixed for general usership.
 > 
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