Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:53:36 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu> To: Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *WARNING* Mozilla v1.3,2 installation causes total system lockup Message-ID: <200304041453.36935.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> In-Reply-To: <1049460448.425.40.camel@jake> References: <1049460448.425.40.camel@jake>
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This is a problem with portupgrade and, more acutely, Xft. It is a loop dependency problem. I guess it will be fixed soon. Anthony On Friday 04 April 2003 14:47, Adam wrote: > *PLEASE READ THIS MESSAGE BEFORE UPDATING MOZILLA * > > Last night I removed Mozilla 1.2.x and Mozilla 1.3b, in favour of the > new Mozilla 1.3,2. I knew the compile would take a while, so I started > it right before I went to sleep. > > This morning I came back and my computer was completely frozen. The > Mozilla installation had apparently almost finished, but somehow gone > into an infinite loop and somehow took every available drop of system > resources until ALL other applications crashed. I could not access the > box locally (even by pushing CTRL+ALT+F2 to bring up another local > session). I tried SSH'ing in from my other computer, but OpenSSHd had > crashed as well. So, the only thing I could do was just hard restart the > computer, which I cringe just at the thought of. > > I checked my /var/log/messages just now, and my theory about what > happened last night has somewhat been confirmed: > > *** > Apr 4 03:57:31 jake /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space > Apr 4 03:57:31 jake /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > Apr 4 03:57:31 jake /kernel: pid 445 (XFree86), uid 0, was killed: out > of swap space > Apr 4 03:57:51 jake /kernel: pid 450 (fluxbox), uid 1001: exited on > signal 10 (core dumped) > Apr 4 03:58:57 jake /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > Apr 4 03:58:58 jake last message repeated 135 times > Apr 4 03:58:58 jake /kernel: pid 331 (squid), uid 85, was killed: out > of swap space > Apr 4 03:58:58 jake squid[329]: Squid Parent: child process 331 exited > due to signal 9 > Apr 4 03:59:11 jake /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > Apr 4 03:59:11 jake last message repeated 71 times > Apr 4 03:59:11 jake /kernel: pid 501 (oafd), uid 1001, was killed: out > of swap space > > ... the list goes on and on for every running process. > *** > > The last thing that was on the screen was something like the following: > 1) Linking the Java module > 2) Failure to load Java module > 3) Registering Mozilla package > 4) Security warning that Mozilla installed modules that might act as a > network server, etc. > > The display was still showing that security warning when I got here this > morning, and apparently had been in that spot for 3+ hours. > > It *is* technically possible that this happened due to another process, > but I find that theory highly unlikely. I was not running anything out > of the ordinary. Everything that was running on my computer has been the > same set of applications that I've been using for at least a year. > > This computer has NO history of any hardware failures. In fact, the > hardware in this machine was meticulously assembled about a year ago > specifically for usage in FreeBSD. > > The only reasonable theory is that the Mozilla installer somehow went > into an infinite loop, something similar to a fork bomb. > > Here's a list of some of my actions yesterday leading up to upgrading my > Mozilla. > - Uninstalled plugger > - Uninstalled acroread > - Uninstalled gv > - Uninstalled Netscape > - Uninstalled galeon > - Uninstalled mozilla-headers > - Uninstalled mozilla > - Uninstalled mozilla-devel > - Installed mozilla v1.3,2 from ports > > I hope this email keeps other people from experiencing the same problem, > and helps to get it resolved as quickly as possible. > > This computer is running on an Athlon 1.5GHz with 512mb DDR RAM and > 1024mb swap space. I am currently running FreeBSD v4.7.
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