156403 - mozilla (and galeon) hang opening website!

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 58339

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Martin Atkins]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020623
Debian/1.2.5-0.woody.1
BuildID:    Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1, build 2002062317

I have to kill mozilla (and galeon "works" the same)
if I attempt to open www.w3c.com (ironic eh?). A couple
of boarders are drawn, before everything stops.

Martin

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.run: mozilla www.w3c.com
2.wait
3.try to use mozilla window

That's it!!

Actual Results:  Mozilla window hung - no redraws or anything

Expected Results:  Should have displayed the webpage and continued working!

Comment 1

[Adam Hauner]

WFM 2002070508/trunk/W2K

> I attempt to open www.w3c.com (ironic eh?)

Martin, maybe you should try to visit http://www.w3c.org/ to reach The World
Wide Web Consortium.

Comment 2

[Martin Atkins]

>> I attempt to open www.w3c.com (ironic eh?)
>
> Martin, maybe you should try to visit http://www.w3c.org/ to reach The World
> Wide Web Consortium.

OK, so maybe it isn't so ironic! :-) You are, of course, correct.
Actually *my* mistake is doubly funny, given that I live for 6
months each year in India :-) !!

However, that doesn't change the underlying problem!

Martin

Comment 3

[Jon Levell]

Works for Me (Linux/Trunk/2002070408)

Does this happen if you create a new profile. (Yes I know not a solution but it
narrows the problem to corrupted profile vs. something else).

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

worksforme, linux build 20020708

the page uses flash plugin.
are you playing audio in the background (xmms?)  see bug 58339

Comment 5

[Martin Atkins]

Ahhh!
Running mozilla under strace showed that it was hanging in the open
of /dev/dsp - sure enough there was a problem with my sound device which
a re-boot has fixed, and mozilla (and galeon) are now working.

Thus the remaining questions are:

Why does www.w3c.com cause /dev/dsp to be opened? I hear a click as I access
the site, but no other sound.

Should mozilla be (more) tollerant to a misbehaving sound system?

Sorry to have flagged this up as a more serious mozilla problem!

Comment 6

[Martin Atkins]

... Or is it, as I gleen for comment #4, a fault with the flash plugin?

(Other flash sites were working, I thought - does flash always open /dev/dsp?)

Comment 7

[Andrew Schultz]

yes.  Flash tries to open /dev/dsp, and if it can't (because you're already
playing audio) then Mozilla hangs.

If that's what you were seeing, then you can mark this as a dupe of bug 58339

Comment 8

[Martin Atkins]

OK, I'm convinced, I'm marking this bug as a dupe
of bug 58339.

Thanks for all your help...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58339 ***