Query about parasitic firefox file

[Colin Law]

On 9 March 2018 at 05:33, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> 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

Easier to reboot, don't run a command unless you understand it and for
most it would be quicker to reboot than work out exactly what that
command does to ensure it will work and that there is no danger of
unexpected side effects.

>
> to check if something has got the file opened.

and if something does still have the file open there is yet more to
do. As I said, it is probably easier just to reboot.

Colin