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Bug #499

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Firefox does not start

Added by rumcic almost 18 years ago. Updated almost 18 years ago.

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Description

After a recent update (including to ff 1.5.0.9 from 1.5.0.8) firefox
became ... useless:

/usr/bin/time -h firefox

0.68s real 0.17s user 0.07s sys

Of course no window popped up, there was nothing. Removing the .mozilla
directory only adds 1 or 2 seconds until it exits (it seems to
create .mozilla folder and a default profile). I did ktrace firefox and I
have no idea how or why it does die but it does experience "Resource
temporarily unavailable" a few times so I suspect this is the same as the
gmake's write error I have been experiencing since May 2006 (maybe even
before but would have to check more thoroughly).

After this I also tried accessing some protected samba shares with konqueror
and in most cases I just got a nice box saying "Internal error has occured:
Resource temporarily unavailable" and a few times I actually got back "Access
denied" (which it should've reported in all cases?).

So I suspect the same cause (bug) is shared among all three cases (if all 3
are experiencing the same problem, it is probably present in other things I
haven't noticed yet?). Now since without firefox I can't even access my bank
or work from home or do anything else productive (all my bookmarks, passwords
and certificates are saved in firefox) I am really desperate. I did try
checking the ktrace of firefox to find the problem myself but it would
probably take me a few weeks just to find out why does it die and I need it
solved much faster.

The ktraces are present at leaf:~rumko/crash/firefox/ktrace.*,
leaf:~rumko/crash/gmake/ktrace.* and leaf:~rumko/crash/konqueror/ktrace.*.
There are some old e-mails if you search for "write error" on the ML and
there is some more info that Matt told me through e-mail so whoever does pick
this job up, e-mail so I can send you some more information.

I need this solved ASAP and am prepared to pay up to 100€ (I would have put
this on the Code Bounties page on the wiki but I'm not even sure if it is the
same bug or not).

Actions #1

Updated by wa1ter almost 18 years ago

Sorry to report that the linux firefox segfaults on my DF-current box,
so my suggestion probably won't help you :o(

I'll see if I can figure out what the real problem is, but I hope
somebody smarter than I am can figure it out quickly for you.

Actions #2

Updated by rumcic almost 18 years ago

I didn't even come that far, it was complaining about some missing libs,
corrected LD_LIBRARY_PATH but it then complained about some missing symbols
(probably just needed linux libs).

And I hope it will be fixed soon. As for gmake's write error, another victim
can be seen on users@ (Subject: updating packages). As for firefox, hopefully he
will complain if it won't start like in my case.

Actions #3

Updated by corecode almost 18 years ago

pebkac, rumkic reported that joerg's binaries work

Actions #4

Updated by wa1ter almost 18 years ago

Hm. My own builds still don't work on HEAD. I think Joerg is building
on -stable?

I haven't updated my system since Matt started all the vkernel work, so
I'm a bit behind, but somehow I don't expect firefox to work any better
after I update :o)

Actions #5

Updated by wa1ter almost 18 years ago

I'm happy to say I was wrong :o) Updating to yesterday's HEAD did in
fact fix firefox.

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