From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 04:53:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 292E337B401 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 04:53:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cordis.lu (mail.cordis.lu [212.190.217.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2508C43F3F for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 04:53:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.carter@cordis.lu) Received: from mailsvr.intrasoft.lu (mail.intrasoft.lu [212.190.217.251]) by mail.cordis.lu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h34Cv6nf021124; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:57:06 +0200 Received: by mail.intrasoft.lu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id <2HMPCKVG>; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:50:51 +0200 Received: from intra241.intrasoft.lu (212.190.217.170 [212.190.217.170]) by mailsvr.intrasoft.lu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2656.59) id 2HMPCKVF; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:50:45 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony To: Adam , ports@freebsd.org Organization: Intrasoft Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:53:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <1049460448.425.40.camel@jake> In-Reply-To: <1049460448.425.40.camel@jake> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304041453.36935.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-126.1 required=4.2 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Re: *WARNING* Mozilla v1.3,2 installation causes total system lockup X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 12:53:27 -0000 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.