179304 - Repeated properties corruption; 100% cpu on read(), XUL.mfasl file corrupt?

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 169777

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[W Sanders]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

I am having repeated properties corruption - characterized by pulling somethig
down on a menu - first it was "Edit->Preferences", then "Window->Mail &
Newsgroups". Mozilla hangs and goes into a 100% CPU loop with

read(38, "", 8192)                      = 0

executing rapidly (from strace.) There is no way to recover except to kill the
looping process, which exits.

Perhaps coincidentally, the most recent change I made to my properties in both
cases was to uncheck "Leave mail on server" in the propeties of my POP email
account.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure mozilla
2. After a few hours of use, properties corruption occurs.
3.

Actual Results:  
No recovery possible except to reconfigur properties.

Expected Results:  
Check read() return status.

Tarball of my configruation is available.

Comment 1

[W Sanders]

So far, unable to find which file the FD has open, bu up to now deleting the
XUL.mfasl file and restarting has successfully cleared the problem every time.

Comment 2

[WD]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169777 ***

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

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