From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ImYkw-0001Ag-Ey for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:50:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9THmcg2029730; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:48:38 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.224]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9THmaRY029720 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:48:37 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h30so3589872wxd for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:48:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=DxCXZzH78nFOpyBH5Fi+OjF1qi6gBwSwPqXqSC1CTMY=; b=Z04xunVwiELz4Mz//04aeFLjwDfRXUt37+kQnsDH3gGp5roPk39t8BnhB95aML1+WCXTGRPvDsdTum4ZKH2QY9l3wkdOob2CD0y0K0TsQSty7jOQCjw0xKKaZMHdGYDyg1AQcKF8ZPqiiET5qfKBmCW1EaVouAtxu/DngbWkO38= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cbK9Hxj68LDl8FVf0cUpyRpBuAzUvq1m9PhSwDM5y+sI7GN0chw/mF2CwcBxz3nNxqmyWuWI8oITL02Vf9C4TZI6ZaQgqSAHQ5pXNLYnt7BH8/AX98GKM2Z85hptoXbYLtO8y4QatWMNnjVbMIUNUOEC1Hc5bwSOzPT7nW0heXU= Received: by 10.90.33.16 with SMTP id g16mr4780379agg.1193680116843; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.49.14 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0710291048h4ce51b1dsdd48803718d1551a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:48:36 -0700 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] firefox-bin crashing a few times every day In-Reply-To: <4d192b620710291041m57573c25i854b76b5c7aebc68@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0710291034g3b21f795q8e14ee27492690dc@mail.gmail.com> <4d192b620710291041m57573c25i854b76b5c7aebc68@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9582add8-763b-46ba-b459-763b55af9711 X-Archives-Hash: 4ace49889c5921eeb6f4ad928ad03ab4 (Watch out for top posting! I've rearranged the text here.) On 10/29/07, Javi Moreno wrote: > > On 10/29/07, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I'm wondering if anyone else is suffering the problems I am with > > firefox-bin crashing a few times every day. It seems to be more or > > less repeatable. After logging into Gnome for the first time if I have > > two tabs and attempt to drag one tab to a different location then it > > crashes. Not every time, but often. When I start firefox-bin a second > > time it recognizes that it crashed, restarts the previous session, and > > at this point it doesn't crash if I drag tabs around. > > > > I have also had this happen multiple times hitting an Attach File > > button in GMail. > > > > I will say that this seems to have started roughly after the last > > time I wrote to the list asking about Java & Flash support. I changed > > a number of things at that time & I can go back and look them up if > > folks think it's really involved. However this seems a strange thing > > to blame on Java or Flash. That work is still in .bash_history so I > > can at least get a rough idea of what I was doing if it seems > > important. > > > > There is little to configure for firefox-bin itself. I've attached > > the emerge command for reference. > > > > I've tried running firefox-bin in a terminal but I don't get any > > info. I should probably learn how to use something like gdb but I'm > > resistant. > > > > Anyway, I'm mainly looking for ideas about what to consider looking > > at to fix this. It's getting frustrating. It crashed 4 times > > yesterday. > > > > It also happens to me many times, only with the 32bit versi=F3n in my 64b= it > machine. > > In my case, it's random, when entering diferents websites, at diferent > times, with diferent actions, some days 10 ten times, some weeks never an= d > so on. > Yes, sounds very much like my problems. Mostly it's pretty random. Clicking on some random link on random web sites can set it off. All sort of little things make it happen. The only semi-consistent thing I've found that's sort of repeatable from day to day is the rearranging of tabs. That will almost always make it happen after logging in the first time of the day. Thanks for the feedback. - Mark -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list