Query about parasitic firefox file

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 20:39:49 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>On 8 March 2018 at 20:13, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> then I suppose that I will have to assume that firefox v58 has
>> corrupted the system to the extent that the system needs to be
>> rebuilt.

Hi,

no, Firefox cannot corrupt the system to this extent.

>No it won't have corrupted the system. It probably means something has
>the file open.  Try a reboot.

The path contains "firefox" [1], so don't reboot, instead run

  killall -9 firefox && lsof|head -n1;lsof|grep firefox

to check if something has got the file opened.

Regards,
Ralf

[1] "/home/me/.mozilla/firefox/<mixedstring>.default-<numericstring>/"


-- 
pacman -Q linux{,-rt{,-securityink,-pussytoes,-cornflower}}|cut -d\  -f2
4.15.7-1
4.14.24_rt19-1
4.14.20_rt17-1
4.14.8_rt9-2
4.11.12_rt16-1