amd64/105155: Firfox hangs on a recently upgraded 6.2-PRERELEASE.

[O. Hartmann]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/105155; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman at mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To: Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org,  freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/105155: Firfox hangs on a recently upgraded 6.2-PRERELEASE.
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:04:27 +0100

 Roland Smith wrote:
 >> Number:         105155
 >> Category:       amd64
 >> Synopsis:       Firfox hangs on a recently upgraded 6.2-PRERELEASE.
 >> Confidential:   no
 >> Severity:       serious
 >> Priority:       medium
 >> Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
 >> State:          open
 >> Quarter:        
 >> Keywords:       
 >> Date-Required:
 >> Class:          sw-bug
 >> Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >> Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov 04 21:00:31 GMT 2006
 >> Closed-Date:
 >> Last-Modified:
 >> Originator:     Roland Smith
 >> Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE amd64
 >> Organization:
 >> Environment:
 >>     
 > System: FreeBSD slackbox.xs4all.nl 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Nov 4 12:09:58 CET 2006 rsmith at slackbox.xs4all.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RFS amd64
 >
 >
 > 	
 >   
 >> Description:
 >>     
 >
 > After upgrading to 6.2-PRERELEASE, firefox hangs when trying to set
 > some of the preferences, or when opening certain websites.
 >
 > Upgrading all ports didn't help.
 >
 > Starting firfox from a terminal gives the following error:
 >
 > GConf Error: Failed to launch configuration server: Failed to execute child process "/usr/local/libexec/gconfd-2" (Invalid argument)
 >
 >
 >   
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 >>     
 > Update to 6.2-PRERELEASE on amd64, start firefox. Open the "preferences"
 > dialog, select the "Content" tab, and press the "Manage..." button. Firefox
 > will hang.
 >
 > After upgrading all ports, audacious hangs as well.
 >
 >   
 >> Fix:
 >>     
 >
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 >   
 >> Release-Note:
 >> Audit-Trail:
 >> Unformatted:
 >>     
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 I can do the recommended 'task for crash', but it takes a while, say, about 30 seconds, before Firefox is bak.
 
 But I also realized a more often hang when closing Firefox, the process is still there, eating up 100% CPU time.