59516 - Clicking on the padlock to get security status as non-root hangs mozilla.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 49507

(Core :: Security: PSM, defect, P3)

Description

[Joel Becker]

I installed PSM as root using the "Install PSM on Linux" button on the PSM
instructions site.  As root, if I click on the padlock, the security manager
dialog comes up with my security status.  PSM doesn't actually work for https
URLs, but that's a different issue.

As a regular user, I then fire up mozilla to a random page.  If I then click the
padlock to obtain the securty status, it just hangs.  No CPU madness.  Nothing. 
It does not redraw or accept any events from the window manager.  I simply have
to kill it via kill(1), xkill(1), or the window manager's "destroy" method.

Oh, this is new (testing again).  It also happens if I try to go to a secure
site as a normal user.  As root, going to a secure site just fails after a
while.  As a normal user, it just keeps busy, with the status bar scrolling back
and forth.  But when I click the "stop" button, the browser again hangs.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install mozilla as root.
2. Install PSM as root (won't install as non-root anyway)
3. Run mozilla as a normal user.

4a. Click on the padlock. -> HANG

4b. Go to an https URL.
5b. Wait a while, see that it isn't doing anything but being "busy".
6b. Click "Stop" -> HANG

Comment 1

[John Unruh]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 49507 ***

Comment 2

[Joel Becker]

I'm sorry to reopen this, but bug 49507 lists it as simply not working, with a
relnote workaround.  This bug is a full-on HANG.  If you still feel that it is
the same cause, please comment as such.  If instead there is info about bug
49507 that shows it to be a duplicate, please comment that somewhere.  But the
current description of 49507 only talks about it not starting.  This is
different than what I am seeing.

Thanks

Comment 3

[John Unruh]

Marking duplicate. The steps to reproduce the bug are the same in bug 49507. 
This is a well known problem. I have also added Joel's observations to bug 49507 
that he is seeing a hang, and cannot continue using the application.
"Joel Becker ([e-mail]) reports that the application hangs when run as 
a different user."


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 49507 ***

Comment 4

[Hans Peter Groendal]

Verified, this is a duplicate of bug 49507 "psm does not work , when run as a
different user in unix. (causes hang/freeze)."