552288 - 1. popuplog for "hang when doing nothing" 2. hundreds of zero-size *.tmp files in e:\firefox directory

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[maurice gueron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100218 Firefox/3.5.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100218 Firefox/3.5.8

1. The computer, running eComStation 1.2 is in working order, has been up for 15 minutes or so. Is presently doing nothing. Becomes unresponsive (hang) and I have to reboot. Here is the popup.log:

03-14-2010  13:52:16  SYS3170  PID 0059  TID 0001  Slot 0054
E:\FIREFOX\FIREFOX.EXE
c0010001
1c03c511
EAX=00000004  EBX=41bf9cf0  ECX=00000000  EDX=00260002
ESI=41bfa030  EDI=41bf9cf0
DS=0053  DSACC=f0f3  DSLIM=ffffffff
ES=0053  ESACC=f0f3  ESLIM=ffffffff
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=005b:1e933cd9  CSACC=f0df  CSLIM=ffffffff
SS:ESP=0053:0011fef4  SSACC=f0f3  SSLIM=ffffffff
EBP=0011fef4  FLG=00252246

DOSCALL1.DLL 0003:0000c511

2. Another (related?) problem: After some time, I find hundreds of zero-size  *.tmp files in the e:\firefox directory. Also in the e:\var\temp 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load firefox
2.do anything, like pmmail. 
3.wait with a few windows open.

Comment 1

[Rich Walsh]

Are you using the Flash 10 "Technology Preview"?  The empty tmp files, and possibly, the hangs are caused by it (Flash 7 could also cause this but Flash 10 is a lot less stable).  The popuplog entry just indicates that the program was told it was being terminated (e.g. because of the reboot) but it failed to handle the notification.  This suggests that it was *really* hung.

Remove Flash from the plugins directory & see if the problem goes away.

Comment 2

[Steve Wendt]

See also bugs 415729 and 614317