383814 - Camino hangs with spinning beach ball after loading a page, when changing focus to address bar, basically anytime

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 351678

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Nicholas Fleisher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3
Build Identifier: Version 2007050909 (1.5)

Camino seems to be internally crippled on my computer. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling 1.5 several times and always get the same results. Sometimes I'm able to load one or two pages, sometimes just one, before I get the spinning beach ball and Activity Monitor confirms that Camino is "not responding." Sometimes, an internal event can cause the hang --- e.g., when I focus the address bar with Command-L, when I click on an application menu at the top of the screen. Pretty much any application-internal task seems capable of sending Camino off the rails. Occasionally this happens only after a couple pages are able to load normally, but often it happens even sooner than that. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Camino
2. Do literally anything
3. Wait (not very long) for beach ball to show up
Actual Results:  
Application hang, with spinning beach ball

Expected Results:  
Normal functionality: focusing the address bar, opening an application menu, loading a page, whatever

This is running on a mid-2005-era iBook G4 1.33 GHz, running 10.4.9, 1.25 GB RAM

Also, the Camino problems happen whether or not I am running (and launching Camino with) Quicksilver.

Comment 1

[Nicholas Fleisher]

Attachment: Sample of Camino process from Activity Monitor during hang

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Do any other apps behave this way?

Have you tried a fresh profile with

http://pimpmycamino.com/parts/troubleshoot-camino  ?

Have you run Disk Utility to confirm that there aren't any problems with your hard drive?

Comment 3

[Nicholas Fleisher]

> Do any other apps behave this way?

No, just Camino.

> Have you tried a fresh profile with
> 
> http://pimpmycamino.com/parts/troubleshoot-camino  ?

Haven't used that, but I've tried reinstalling after getting rid of the old Camino folder in ~/Library/Application Support/ (I assume this is equivalent to creating a fresh profile?), and get the same hanging behavior with the new installation/profile.

> Have you run Disk Utility to confirm that there aren't any problems with your
> hard drive?

I repair permissions via Disk Utility about once a week. I'll try the Verify Disk option and see if that turns up anything.

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> > Have you tried a fresh profile with
> > 
> > http://pimpmycamino.com/parts/troubleshoot-camino  ?
> 
> Haven't used that, but I've tried reinstalling after getting rid of the old
> Camino folder in ~/Library/Application Support/ (I assume this is equivalent to
> creating a fresh profile?), and get the same hanging behavior with the new

Yep, that's what Troubleshoot Camino does, too.

> > Have you run Disk Utility to confirm that there aren't any problems with your
> > hard drive?
> 
> I repair permissions via Disk Utility about once a week. I'll try the Verify
> Disk option and see if that turns up anything.


Repair Permissions is almost always a red herring; do let us know if Verify Disk turns up any corruption, as this sounds like a problem on your end (the sample doesn't look all that interesting, at least to me).

You might also try creating a fresh user account on your OS X installation and see if that has the same problem.

cl

Comment 5

[Nicholas Fleisher]

> Repair Permissions is almost always a red herring; do let us know if Verify
> Disk turns up any corruption, as this sounds like a problem on your end (the
> sample doesn't look all that interesting, at least to me).

Yes, in fact Verify Disk did turn up a problem (or two). Will dig out my install DVD and see if I can get it repaired. Thanks for suggesting this, and sorry for the bother.

Comment 6

[Stuart Morgan]

Could you check Console to see if any messages are logged to console.log by Camino when this happens?

Comment 7

[Nicholas Fleisher]

Yes, every time I started up Camino it logged a message about using the automatic proxy configuration file I have set up on my system to access content behind my university library proxy. I tried disabling the automatic proxy configuration, and lo and behold, Camino seems to be magically un-crippled.

Any thoughts on whether this sounds like a plausible reason for the earlier slowness? And any thoughts on how to get auto proxy configuration to work with Camino? Thanks!

Comment 8

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Yes, every time I started up Camino it logged a message about using the
> automatic proxy configuration file I have set up on my system to access content
> behind my university library proxy. I tried disabling the automatic proxy
> configuration, and lo and behold, Camino seems to be magically un-crippled.

Bingo. Bug 351678, then, right?

cl 

Comment 9

[Nicholas Fleisher]

> Bingo. Bug 351678, then, right?

Yep, looks like it. Which is too bad, because it would be really great if Camino could play nicely with the .pac file. I really prefer Camino to Safari, but it's a pain to go into System Preferences and turn automatic proxy configuration on and off every time I want to access library stuff. (I realize this is not a problem for a lot of people.) Here's hoping Camino 2.0 (or maybe 1.5.1...) has support for auxo proxy config!

Thanks again for all your help. As a result of this, I ended up finding and repairing a free block count problem on my hard disk (even though that apparently had nothing to do with the .pac-related Caminio slowdown). Much appreciated!