276750 - Firefox hangs trying to open port 111 on localhost

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 210585

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[David Mohr]

I'm running firefox 1.0 (Debian unstable, firefox version 1.0+dfsg.1-1), and 
sporadically firefox hangs when I go to www.ebay.de, but it has also hung (less 
often) when loading other pages.
The problem does not occur all the time but very often. I used strace to find 
out where it hangs, and it is on the following system call (strace -p output):
---snip---
connect(28, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.
0.1")}, 16) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
+++ killed by SIGKILL +++
---snap---
When I strace from the beginning, I get more information, pasting the last 
lines:
---snip---
open("/etc/rpc", O_RDONLY)              = 50
fcntl64(50, F_GETFD)                    = 0
fcntl64(50, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
fstat64(50, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=871, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0x449ba000
read(50, "# This file contains user readab"..., 4096) = 871
close(50)                               = 0
munmap(0x449ba000, 4096)                = 0
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 50
getpid()                                = 3461
bind(50, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(669), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}
, 16) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
connect(50, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.
0.1")}, 16) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
+++ killed by SIGKILL +++
---snap---

Interestingly, mozilla (1.7.3-5) behaves exactly the same way and hangs on the 
same system call.

Comment 1

[David Mohr]

Attachment: strace of firefox hanging on ebay.de

Output of strace firefox, opening the url www.ebay.de, bzip2 compressed.

Comment 2

[Yevgen Reznichenko]

On my machine (debian sid 2.6.11) the error occures only if the lo device is
down or is not configured. Reenabling of the device (ifconfig lo down &&
ifconfig lo up) helps.

Firefox version: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7)
Gecko/20050421 Firefox/1.0.3 (Debian package 1.0.3-2)

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Reporter: Can you confirm what Yevgen wrote in Comment 2?

Comment 4

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

That would be a dupe of Bug 210585 then.

Comment 5

[Bhavesh]

hangs for mee too.. yahoo inbox majorly, but other pages too occassionally.

Comment 6

[Christian Bergstrom]

I've done the steps and on Firefox 2.0 it does not do it.

Comment 7

[Rita Bowling]

Hangs for me too... mostly on Club Pogo(of which I am a paying member). Its getting so bad that I'm considering going back to MIE. I love Firefox, though, and would hate to leave it. 

Comment 8

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I'm going to dupe this to bug 210585 which is most likely what it is based on comment 2. The comments starting at 5 and after are probably other things.