Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:04:52 +0200 From: Giovanni Trematerra <gianni@freebsd.org> To: Davide Italiano <davide.italiano@gmail.com> Cc: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, glen.j.barber@gmail.com, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: System freezes unexpectly Message-ID: <AANLkTim7cjqeoH99x9f-YwXgTnFi%2BcaoKzkv5dkSJyDB@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100831232913.GA8129@phemt.homenet.telecomitalia.it.lan> References: <AANLkTimCZsan9y%2Bn=V1pHnT1q=9iWHbwc2cnJGyOz90k@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTikaCjM%2BJFjAGDefoiQHLDbhdpSyg%2BuxiGmmswON@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTi=KAgk14wf7Z=a=CNgyEAPDnyRtM8bjZDanbfzV@mail.gmail.com> <201008310753.49567.jhb@freebsd.org> <20100831232913.GA8129@phemt.homenet.telecomitalia.it.lan>
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On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Davide Italiano <davide.italiano@gmail.com> 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 >> > <davide.italiano@gmail.com> 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
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