201702 - Browser freezes after some idle time (network account)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2003-04-08: Linux RH 8.0

Overview: After opening the browser and leaving it idle for a little while (i.e.
5 minutes) then the application freezes and displays cascading windows if I try
to move the window. I can't kill the process or do anything else on the system.
I then have to perform a hard boot.

Steps to reproduce:
1. On my linux rh 8.0 system I login to the network
2. Open the browser
3. Wait about 5 minutes

Actual Results: Try to move the window and a cascading effect appears. I try to
kill the process but that doesn't work. Trying to shutdown the system also
fails. I then have to perform a hard reboot. This problem also occurs if Mail is
open.

If I login to my local system and run the browser from my local drive then it is
ok. 

Expected Results: The browser should not freeze.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

Sarah, have you seen this problem?

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

i haven't experienced this (yet), but fwiw, i've been logging in using a local
account, not my network account.

cc'ing bryner --brian, have you heard of (recently?) issues of mozilla hanging
when logged on via a network account? there might've been old bugs about that,
but i don't know if they've surfaced again with rh8.0 or rh9.0...

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

i tried searching on bugs involving mozilla and nfs, but could find anything
that's like this (somehow i don't thing bug 19163 would fit, since this isn't
migration).

Comment 4

[Kornelis]

Under Windows i have the same problem, leaving Mozilla (1.3 as well as 1.4 
alpha) for a while results in slow appearance, slow reactions and, cascading 
Windows :/
I'm not sure if Phoenix 0.5 (wich i used before, because of it's anti-popup and 
tabbed browsing functions) had the same problem...

The only solution is to reboot, just restarting Mozilla (also in the 
taskmanager, dôh) won't help :(
At first i thought Java (Sun Java RE 141) was the source of the problem, but 
after deleting it it still reacts slow :(

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

could this be related to bug 196487? see also bug 204643, which was dup'd
against bug 196487.

Comment 6

[Grace Bush]

I am seeing this today also- first few minutes of browsing/testing are ok, then
I am unable to send IM or browse.   If I wait a bit, I can work again, but only
for  a few minutes- nominating

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

could this be related to bug 90682?

Comment 8

[Samir Gehani]

adt: need info.  Grace, is this recurring with current builds?

Comment 9

[Grace Bush]

I am seeing this on the 5/14 build- 

Comment 10

[Samir Gehani]

adt: need info.  Grace, when you notice these characteristics, can you check if
Mach V suffers from this behavior?  That is, is this a regression?  Thanks.

It has been suggested that this could be a symptom of intranet latency/slowness.

Comment 11

[Samir Gehani]

adt: nsbeta1-

Comment 12

[Xavier Vincent]

Seems this mighty bug returned in Gecko 1.8! :-(

Also happens with SeaMonkey 1.0 alpha on Windows 98SE. It freezes the whole
computer after some idle time leaving no other escape than hitting the reset switch.

Seems not to happen with Gecko 1.9 based builds (SeaMonkey 1.1a)...

Comment 13

[Andrew Schultz]

resolving WFM -- everyone who ever saw this is gone

if you think you're seeing this, look for other bugs or file a new one.