Bug#567415: iceweasel won't restart after it crashes

[Gary Dale]

Brian Ryans wrote:
> Quoting Gary Dale on 2010-01-28 16:55:32:
>
>   
>> After Iceweasel crashes it refuses to restart - even in safe-mode - until
>> I reboot the computer.
>>     
>
> When you start Iceweasel, does it bring up an error message saying
> something like "There is an iceweasel process running but it is not
> responding"? If so, try the following command. This is just a temporary
> fix, designed to prevent you from having to reboot.
>
> $ killall iceweasel || killall firefox-bin
>
> Create a new profile and try from that. If that fails as well, create a
> new user.
>
> If all of the above fails, then I'll have to look into how to do some
> heavier debuggng on it.
>
>   
No that's not the problem. I haven't tried the other things you've 
suggested, but I can report that logging out and back in again isn't 
sufficient.

Mike Hommey has already provided a workaround "set ICEWEASEL_DSP to none 
in /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc."