From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 15 06:55:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803FF16A419 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:55:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from techie@tantivy.tantivy.net) Received: from smtp3.stanford.edu (smtp3.Stanford.EDU [171.67.20.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85D8713C442 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:55:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from techie@tantivy.tantivy.net) Received: from smtp3.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 576F160F403 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from tantivy.tantivy.net (tantivy.Stanford.EDU [171.66.118.251]) by smtp3.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D47FF60F3FB for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from tantivy.tantivy.net (techie@localhost.tantivy.net [127.0.0.1]) by tantivy.tantivy.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0F6dkWi050725 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:40:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from techie@tantivy.tantivy.net) Received: (from techie@localhost) by tantivy.tantivy.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m0F6dkPB050724 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:39:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from techie) From: Bob Vaughan Message-Id: <200801150639.m0F6dkPB050724@tantivy.tantivy.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:39:46 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121h (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Why does firefox keep locking up on me? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:55:43 -0000 I've been having a problem on one particular machine with Firefox locking up on me, requiring a hard kill to get rid of it. The problem is thus: Firefox starts normally, but as soon as I go to a site that requires authentication, or any other form of user input, It will freeze as soon as I start entering my userid. For instance, I go to batboard.batlabs.com, and click Login. I start entering my userid, and as soon as I enter the first character, Firefox freezes. The number of characters entered varies, with del.icio.us, it didn't freeze until I clicked login after entering my userid/password. I kill the window, but the process continues to sit there. 74199 ?? I 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/firefox 74203 ?? I 0:00.01 /bin/sh /usr/local/lib/firefox/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lo 74207 ?? R 4:55.60 /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin The machine is an old Dell Optiplex GX110 (p3/800 w 256mb), dual nVidia TNT2/64 cards, running 6.3-PRERELEASE (20080112), and Xorg 7.3_1. Firefox is 2.0.0.11. No extensions or wrappers. The problem has been ongoing for a while, but I think I first noticed it around the time I upgraded Xorg from 7.0 to 7.1 (mid spetember). I tried rolling X back at the time, but that didn't help. I have gone as far as reinstalling FreeBSD and X from scratch, but the problem still appears. It affects both the native and linux versions. Starting from a clean slate, I installed 6.3-RC2, grabbed the ports distro, built and installed cvsup, and grabbed the latest sources, built world and kernel, and then Xorg 7.1, and both the FreeBSD native and Linux versions of Firefox. The kernel is nothing special, just a stripped down version of GENERIC minus scsi controllers, firewire, pccard, extra NIC's, and i486_CPU. The problem only occurs on this machine, not on my laptop, or my workstation at home. It only seems to effect Firefox, Opera works fine. Any ideas where to start looking? -- -- Welcome My Son, Welcome To The Machine -- Bob Vaughan | techie @ tantivy.net | | P.O. Box 19792, Stanford, Ca 94309 | -- I am Me, I am only Me, And no one else is Me, What could be simpler? --