287073 - 3 minute delay when starting Firefox

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[David Cantrell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050306 Firefox/1.0.1 (Debian package 1.0.1-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050306 Firefox/1.0.1 (Debian package 1.0.1-2)

Firefox takes approx three minutes to start, whereas previously it came up in
seconds.  No, I haven't (deliberately!) changed anything.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Start Firefox ;-)
Actual Results:  
Firefox starts and runs just fine, but with a three minute pause before displaying.

Expected Results:  
The same, but without the pause.

Here's what I think is the relevant bit of strace output ...

16:19:20.032436 open("/usr/bin/mozilla-firefox", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
16:19:20.032484 ioctl(3, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbffff7ec) = -1 ENOTTY
    (Inappropriate ioctl for device)                
16:19:20.032528 _llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR) = 0
16:19:20.032554 read(3, "#!/bin/sh\n#\n# The contents of th"..., 80) = 80       
16:19:20.032586 _llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEK_SET) = 0
16:19:20.032611 getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, {rlim_cur=1024, rlim_max=1024}) = 0
16:19:20.032646 dup2(3, 255)            = 255
16:19:20.032668 close(3)                = 0
...
16:19:20.035953 pipe([3, 4])            = 0
...
16:19:20.036050 fork()                  = 24081
...
16:19:20.039077 read(3, 0xbffff440, 128) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
16:22:20.059714 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
16:22:20.059757 waitpid(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], WNOHANG) =
    24081
...

The three minute delay is obvious in the last few lines.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Do you use any extension like proxy switcher or others?

Comment 2

[David Cantrell]

No proxies, no extensions

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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