Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 08:56:01 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FireFox and NFSv4 Message-ID: <CAOjFWZ4NNCKkgkxMeh5yQVPb=J2skqdYzYY4RHhn0bqZyt_26A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <08924a7b-d2dc-468e-493d-472487344698@netfence.it> References: <08924a7b-d2dc-468e-493d-472487344698@netfence.it>
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 8:36 AM Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote: > Hello. > > For years I've had my home on an NFSv3 server. > Finally I decided to move to NFSv4. > > Now the following happens every now and then (let's say, 1 out of 5 > times I launch it): > _ FireFox is closed (no process running); > _ I open FireFox and, while it works, a red message appears saying: > "The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of > Firefox's files is in use by another application. Some security software > can cause this problem"; > _ I can close FireFox, but I'll have to wait for a while to reopen it, > or I'll get the "Firefox is already running but not responding" window. > _ After a while I can open it again with no warning. > > Nothing to really worry about, but I'm curious (and would like to be > sure no latent problem is there). > > Of course I beleive the reference to "security software" does not apply > to UNIX systems; I don't think anything is accessing FF files either. > > What should I check? > Seems to be a known issue with NFS storage of the .mozilla folder that's made worse with NFSv4: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1428169 Has to do with file locking and race conditions in the multi-process setup, and using SQLite databases for everything. There's a couple of workaround listed in there (see comment 29) that work for most people. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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