Closed Bug 226556 Opened 21 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Still XUL.mfasl hangs: Reopen 169777!

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: Klaus.Kusche, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: hang)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031123 Firebird/0.7 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031123 Firebird/0.7 Please reopen 169777 (see my comment there) Please ignore the user agent in this bug, I've problems with mozilla 1.5, I'm just using firebird now because mozilla is so unstable... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Can't reproduce at will, but it is guranteed to happen at random sooner or later.
Severity: normal → critical
Keywords: hang
does it happen with latest nightly build ? If so, is it on a particular web site ?
Definitely not fixed, but worse than ever! Bug 169777 comment 268 asks to open a new bug, if something is found in Mozilla 1.4a or later. Your Bug 169777 comment 272 doesn´t fit the description, people reporting there had the problem the mozilla didn´t start. So this is a new bug, as it is another problem, not seen in 1.2 and 1.3a, but now in 1.5. copy of your comment in Bug 169777 Mozilla 1.5 on Gentoo Linux. After 10-15 minutes of intensive browsing, moz starts to react slowly and finally stops responding to mouse or keyboard. It consumes 100 % CPU and needs to be killed from the command line. Any attempt to start mozilla immediately gets a SIGSEGV. After deleting XUL.mfasl, everything is fine again (for the next 10 minutes or so...). Maybe your XUL.mfasl is corrupt, because you killed Mozilla? So the getting slower isn´t due to a corrupt XUL.mfasl, but the corrupt XUL.mfasl is due to killing Mozilla? Can you try to kill it after a minute, way before you see Mozilla getting slower? What is intensive browsing? Opening a lot of text tabs, like newsgroups, or websites using flash, java, lot of images? You are using Gentoo linux, and Gentoo is compiled for your platform. Did you use a binary, or compiled yourself? Do you have themes and/or extensions installed? Is your Java working? test available at http://www.heise.de/security/dienste/browsercheck/tests/java.shtml
> Definitely not fixed, but worse than ever! was the start of the comment of Klaus. I´ve had some problems with copying :-(
Version info: I use Gentoo's mozilla-1.5-r1, compiled myself with gcc-3.1. It says Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031123 No special themes or extensions I'm aware of. Mozilla is compiled with Java support, but it doesn't work (at startup, it complains that some symbol is missing). After some experiments, I believe that I've two separate problems: * The corrupt XUL.mfasl. New problem. * The slowdown and hang. Old problem. About XUL.mfasl: XUL.mfasl is not corrupted by killing mozilla: I remove XUL.mfasl, start moz, immediately quit it, try to start it again --> Sig 11. Remove the file again --> starts fine. So just starting and ending moz writes a corrupt XUL.mfasl. This problem is new, never had it in 1.2/1.3/1.4: With these versions, I only got a corrupt XUL.mfasl after killing moz due to the hang. Will try to attach it. About the hang: I had that for all versions of moz I used so far, starting from 1.2, but it became worse with 1.5. It happens after browsing many different web sites (searching for products, software, visiting websites of friends, ...). Not related to s specific site or feature, moz just "ages": Works fine for some time, suddenly reacts noticably slower and consumes a lot of CPU when loading an new page (but can still be terminated normally with some patience), and finally hangs completely with 100 % CPU. Characteristics of visited sites: Images: Some, sometimes quite a lot. Flash: Now and then. Javascript: Rarely: I usually have it disabled and only turn it on for pages where I really need it, problem also happens with Javascript turned off. Tabs: none, I don't use them (but I sometimes use several browser windows, up to five or so).
Get some stack samples. Also, what is Gentoo Linux? It sounds like it has broken random-access i/o. /be
Sorry, cannot upload the broken XUL.mfasl. Attachments are limited to 300 KB, and the file is 1.8 MB... As far as I know, Gentoo is currently number four of all Linux Dist's. It's a source dist, like Debian. And it should be fine, it is much more stable than redhat on my other computer, no similar problems with any other application. And I use only packages marked "stable", no experiments here... And as I said, the XUL problem appeared with 1.5. I used 1.4 before on the same system, and it didn't have the XUL.mfasl problem, so it's most likely not a problem of my system. About stack traces: How do I take them? Moz doesn't dump core, even when killed with Sig 6?
Re: gentoo: http://www.gentoo.org/ iirc you download a small starter, about 16 MB, then specify your system, and what you want, and then the files you need are downloaded and compiled, optimized for your CPU. Very oversimplified, I don´t know enough about Linux. They don´t use apt-get, but emerge to upgrade systems. They are also using bugzilla, mozilla gives 463 hits in their bugzilla. Re: XUL.mfasl when you remove it, start mozilla and immediately quit, you get SIG11, and if you remove it again and start, it works? Imho Mozilla needs some time to create XUL.mfasl and to write it to disk, did you exit Mozilla normally, or did you kill it? I´don´t know nothin´ about gentoo, just found a bug in their bugzilla. Unexpected Signal : 11 occurred at PC=0x40245525 Loading java applet in mozilla http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33715 Searching for Mozilla in the Bugzilla over there gave 463 bugs, mostly build related. Don´t think this bug is related to yours here. Which Mozilla components are installed, and which do you use? Do you use Mozilla Mail? Calendar? What happens, if you delete XUL.mfasl, start mozilla, wait for a minute, and exit. Mozilla needs some time to exit, so wait again aminute, before starting again. Do you still get SIG11?
there is another bug of gentoo delivering SIG11 Bug 226574 often crashes if I want to open a link at derstandard.at
Feel free to test whether these random SIG11 crashes reproduce with you set the nglayout.debug.disable_xul_fastload pref to true. /be
1.) Setting nglayout.debug.disable_xul_fastload to true solves (or at least circumvents) the problem. 2.) I did what Hermann Schwab describes: Delete XUL.mfasl, start mozilla, wait some moments, quit it normally, wait some moments (bash shows completion of the mozilla job), try to start again -->SIG11. 3.) No java here (doesn't work, but doesn't cause the crash). 4.) I use the browser and the mail component. 5.) I'm still at gcc 3.1.1 (which is very unusual for Gentoo and no longer supported). Could the problem be that gcc 3.1.1 miscompiles mozilla when optimizing?
Re: downrev gcc -- who knows? Try a newer version. /be
Difficult to impossible: There's a gcc ABI change between 3.1.1 and 3.2.x. Hence, this gcc upgrade requires a complete recompile of the whole system to make libraries and applications fit together again (which takes many days on my notebook) - I've planned it for the summer holidays...
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
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