Unable to Upgrade Firefox on OS X
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 7:45 Today I tried to upgrade Firefox 5.0.1 on my iMac to version Firefox 6, but it failed with some 'weird' error;
The operation can't be completed because the item libsmime3.dylib" is in use.
Weird because I didn't have FireFox running at the time. Removing Firefox didn't work either, since I couldn't remove it from the Trash (same error).
Turned out that I had the Cisco AnyConnect VPN installed on my system (process name: vpnagentd). To 'unload' this process enter the following in Terminal:
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.cisco.anyconnect.vpnagentd.plist
Install Firefox, and enable the vpnagent again by entering the following in Terminal:
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.cisco.anyconnect.vpnagentd.plist
And all should be well.
Willem |
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