Firefox crashes and hangs my 6.1R system
freebsd-questions at auscert.org.au
freebsd-questions at auscert.org.au
Wed Jun 7 05:46:57 UTC 2006
Hi,
Lately, and seemingly inexplicably, firefox will lock up my X server with
it if I click a button where filesystem access is required eg. if I'm in
an 'upload file' form and a 'Browse...' button is available to go to a
filesystem browser. If I ssh into the machine remotely I can see that Xorg
is using 90+% CPU and the only way to recover is to reboot (which doesn't
even execute cleanly). Interestingly, I can reproduce this situation when
running firefox on a remote host but displaying locally so it seems more
likely X/system related than specifically firefox. When the machine hangs,
even the keyboard is non functional eg scroll lock won't light. I have USB
keyboard/mouse.
I'd appreciate any tips for diagnosis/recovery. I've appended the most
relevant configuration information. I've already rebuilt and installed
kernel/world to ensure I'm up to date, and portupgraded as much as
practicable. I should note that I haven't changed my build options for
firefox since pre-crash, either.
regards,
-- Joel Hatton --
Infrastructure Manager | Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417
AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031
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Firefox options:
# This file is auto-generated by 'make config'.
# No user-servicable parts inside!
# Options for firefox-1.5.0.4,1
_OPTIONS_READ=firefox-1.5.0.4,1
WITH_NEWTAB=true
WITHOUT_SMB=true
WITHOUT_DEBUG=true
WITH_LOGGING=true
WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=true
6.1-RELEASE-p1
Information for xorg-server-6.9.0_4:
Depends on:
Dependency: expat-2.0.0_1
Dependency: pkgconfig-0.20_2
Dependency: pkg-config-0.20_2
Dependency: libdrm-2.0.1_1
Dependency: freetype2-2.1.10_3
Dependency: fontconfig-2.3.2_5,1
Dependency: xorg-libraries-6.9.0
Information for firefox-1.5.0.4,1:
Depends on:
Dependency: libiconv-1.9.2_2
Dependency: expat-2.0.0_1
Dependency: gettext-0.14.5_2
Dependency: jpeg-6b_4
Dependency: pkgconfig-0.20_2
Dependency: pkg-config-0.20_2
Dependency: png-1.2.8_3
Dependency: freetype2-2.1.10_3
Dependency: popt-1.7_1
Dependency: perl-5.8.8
Dependency: glib-2.10.2
Dependency: nspr-4.6.1
Dependency: nss-3.11_1
Dependency: fontconfig-2.3.2_5,1
Dependency: libxml2-2.6.24
Dependency: libdrm-2.0.1_1
Dependency: xorg-libraries-6.9.0
Dependency: libXft-2.1.7_1
Dependency: tiff-3.8.2
Dependency: xorg-fonts-encodings-6.9.0_1
Dependency: shared-mime-info-0.17_1
Dependency: bitstream-vera-1.10_2
Dependency: libIDL-0.8.6_2
Dependency: atk-1.11.4
Dependency: xorg-fonts-truetype-6.9.0
Dependency: hicolor-icon-theme-0.5
Dependency: glitz-0.4.4_1
Dependency: desktop-file-utils-0.11
Dependency: cairo-1.0.4
Dependency: pango-1.12.2
Dependency: gtk-2.8.17
My current kernel config file:
machine i386
cpu I686_CPU
ident GX260
options SCHED_ULE # ULE scheduler
options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread preemption
options INET # InterNETworking
options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates support
options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists
options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big directories
options NFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client
options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem
options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem
options PROCFS # Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS)
options PSEUDOFS # Pseudo-filesystem framework
options GEOM_GPT # GUID Partition Tables.
options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4
options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5
options SCSI_DELAY=5000 # Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
options KTRACE # ktrace(1) support
options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory
options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues
options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores
options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time extensions
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev
options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive.
options IPFIREWALL #firewall
options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE #enable logging to syslogd(8)
options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE # Include this file in kernel
options TCP_DROP_SYNFIN #drop TCP packets with SYN+FIN
device apic # I/O APIC
device pci
device fdc
device ata
device atadisk # ATA disk drives
device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering
device ahc # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices
device isp # Qlogic family
device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
device ch # SCSI media changers
device da # Direct Access (disks)
device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc)
device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller
device atkbd # AT keyboard
device psm # PS/2 mouse
device vga # VGA video card driver
device splash # Splash screen and screen saver support
device sc
device agp # support several AGP chipsets
device pmtimer
device sio # 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports
device ppc
device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required)
device lpt # Printer
device em # Intel PRO/1000 adapter Gigabit Ethernet Card
device loop # Network loopback
device random # Entropy device
device ether # Ethernet support
device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
device bpf # Berkeley packet filter
device uhci # UHCI PCI->USB interface
device usb # USB Bus (required)
device ugen # Generic
device uhid # "Human Interface Devices"
device ukbd # Keyboard
device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da
device ums # Mouse
options NETSMBCRYPTO
options LIBICONV
options LIBMCHAIN
options UNIONFS #Union filesystem
options NULLFS #NULL filesystem
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