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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
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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
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> 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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