maybe we need to kick off a background script to remove it in 2 seconds
or something?  Thunderbird has not, after all, actually exited yet when
it  runs this script...  And perhaps a double-subshell so we don't
wait for it:

(
   (sleep 2; rm .parentlock) &
   exit
) &

Troy Dawson wrote:
> First off, there is a new SL_firefox_parentlock_fix in the testing area. 
>  I messed up a bit on my update, but I've fixed the fix, and double 
> checked it.  It's at
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/testing/i386/RPMS/browsers/SL_firefox_parentlock_fix-1.0-7.noarch.rpm 
> 
> 
> But here's a problem.
> It wasn't working for me today, getting the usual pop-up box that says
> "Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding.  To open a new 
> window, you must first close the existing Thunderbird process, or 
> restart your system."
> 
> So, I check my script, find the bug in it (which is now fixed), fix the 
> bug, and ... the same thing happen's.  Same pop-up box before 
> thunderbird fails.
> 
> So I put debug statements into my S01parentlock script, and found that I 
> actually am removing the .parentlock file, only to have it made again. 
> Here is some output
> 
> --looking at the file by hand
> -- before I run thunderbird
> 
> bash-3.00$ date
> Wed Oct  4 08:55:55 CDT 2006
> bash-3.00$ ls -lh .parentlock
> -rw-r--r--  1 dawson oss 0 Oct  4 08:54 .parentlock
> 
> --debug output from S01parentlock --
> --I look to make sure it has found the right directory
> --I then do an ls of the .parentlock before I remove it
> --I then do an ls of the .parentlock after I remove it
> 
> **************************
> Wed Oct  4 08:56:04 CDT 2006
> default/jtpdnzp2.slt
> /afs/fnal.gov/files/home/room2/dawson/.thunderbird/default/jtpdnzp2.slt/.parentlock 
> 
> removed parentlock
> ls: default/jtpdnzp2.slt/.parentlock: No such file or directory
> **************************
> Wed Oct  4 08:56:04 CDT 2006
> default/jtpdnzp2.slt
> /afs/fnal.gov/files/home/room2/dawson/.thunderbird/default/jtpdnzp2.slt/.parentlock 
> 
> removed parentlock
> ls: default/jtpdnzp2.slt/.parentlock: No such file or directory
> 
> --looking at the file by hand
> -- after I run thunderbird (and it failed)
> 
> bash-3.00$ date
> Wed Oct  4 08:56:10 CDT 2006
> bash-3.00$ ls -lh .parentlock
> -rw-r--r--  1 dawson oss 0 Oct  4 08:56 .parentlock
> 
> I do have an 'strace -f' if anyone is curious.
> 
> In the end, I remove the .parentlock file by hand, and then it worked. 
> Since it's my regular e-mail client, I had to get some work done.
> 
> Troy