264576 - Mozilla sporadically takes minutes to startup

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[R List]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040929
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040929

After Mozilla omce froze/crashed while I was browsing, now it sometimes takes
ages (e.g. minutes) for the browser window to show up when I launch the
application. It usually takes 2 -3 seconds.

I have had this behaviour in earlier versions as well.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have Mozilla as-is on my hard drive :)
2. Launch Mozilla
3. 

Actual Results:  
I didn't time it but certainly 2 minutes once for the window to show up.

Expected Results:  
Startup in a few seconds.

If it is any help I have found a system call by help of strace which appears to
be connected to the problem.

Exerpt from:  strace -T mozilla

rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [RTMIN], 8) = 0 <0.000026>
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x80750c0, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 <0.000049>
waitpid(-1, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0], 0) = 10260 <9.634948>
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0 <0.000027>
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---

Notice the waitpid call in the middle. That's where it's hanging...

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

> Exerpt from:  strace -T mozilla

that will strace the startup script.
try "sh -x mozilla"

It alsilooks like you're not using a .mozilla.org build... in which case, please
report the problem to wherever you got the build from.  Mozilla can't fix bugs
introduced by others.

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

resolving INVALID -- not enough information

if this is still a problem with a recent .mozilla.org build, please provide more
information