From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 8 09:27:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3BE010656A6; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:27:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from giovanni.trematerra@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B008FC12; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:27:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb33 with SMTP id 33so8265354wyb.13 for ; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:27:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=r4GhfEUrg748Zk40qixJw4knaFOPjJZgmOItzNZBpf4=; b=GCi4t/JfHqaM3GYyeQxWGihZMs0xq47OK6Sam7I2/uwCIuOgjwUs9/6t/11+t4hp5M RqEP+c6Clgt3LeZpg3fxRQ+hUOpUpurerHg7sazHcRyJ0eUOrZVuf57EDhHDZ28MSpQD l6jS441eMN7IKZh000ZSUse91tHphylLJi+us= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=FyyXdYlRcppn+qOjbZwusg5zotmuWk9tziO9q6DMExTjL7Im10TOTjMoQqWyjyODac dCm8YeTrp2xP/Rs0m6+xwaGXcUWg5Y5gJL4RWFcY3/sL+R1wx2TJ6mLhsLESS1BiBmkT stShGYa1lvKN5KWING6yOYa/KHCiNgFbgxXoI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.44.6 with SMTP id y6mr6792wbe.17.1283936693072; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:04:53 -0700 (PDT) Sender: giovanni.trematerra@gmail.com Received: by 10.227.135.210 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 02:04:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100831232913.GA8129@phemt.homenet.telecomitalia.it.lan> References: <201008310753.49567.jhb@freebsd.org> <20100831232913.GA8129@phemt.homenet.telecomitalia.it.lan> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:04:52 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: vDwfveCEz9tiTKQVZUIiU0U3jbQ Message-ID: From: Giovanni Trematerra To: Davide Italiano Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Attilio Rao , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, glen.j.barber@gmail.com, Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: System freezes unexpectly X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:27:21 -0000 On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Davide Italiano wrote: > On 31/08/10 07:53, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Monday, August 30, 2010 12:45:40 pm Garrett Cooper wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Davide Italiano >> > wrote: >> > > removing ~/.mozilla works fine. I think that problem's related to >> > > add-on Xmarks I've been installer or to "Restore session" >> > > functionality >> > >> > It would have been interesting to capture what `froze' the machine, in >> > particular because it could have been a valuable bug for either >> > Mozilla to capture and fix, or for us to capture and fix. Unless your >> > machine doesn't meet the hardware requirements, I don't see a reason >> > why a userland application should lock up a system. >> > >> > There are other ways you can debug this further, using -safe-mode as a >> > next step, then choose to not restore the last session (which is >> > available from within the javascript settings file -- nsPrefs.js?). >> >> If only firefox is frozen, then you can always ssh in from another machi= ne and >> use top/ps, etc., or even gdb on the firefox process itself. >> >> -- >> John Baldwin >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" > > I tried to ssh from another machine or ping but I can't perform this oper= ation (hostname lookup failure). > I also noticed that the cause of the problem is pretty surely Xmarks. So,= if I remove ~/.mozilla firefox3 works again. When I reinstall Xmarks the s= ystem freezes. > Attilio Rao (rookie), an italian kernel developer suggest me to recompile= the kernel using the options, KDB, DDB, GDB, KDB_UNATTENDED (in particular= the last one, that reboot the machine if a panic occurs), but I didn't obt= ain nothin' useful, because isn't a panic (the machine doesn't reboot) neit= her dmesg is more verbose about the problem. I also tried to recompile fire= fox from ports w/ DEBUG flag enable, but I don't see anythin' good launchin= g firefox from xterm. > If I'm not wrong Xmarks firefox add-on hasn't a native FreeBSD port so perhaps the issue lies into linuxator. -- Gianni