[gentoo-user] Seamonkey and random crashes.

[gentoo-user] Seamonkey and random crashes.

[Dale]

Hi folks,

Every once in a while Seamonkey will crash.  I been waiting for quite a
while this time.  It doesn't happen to often but it is annoying.  This
mostly happens when I am saving a picture and the save dialog box
opens.  Usually during the save process, everything Seamonkey dies.  I
ran Seamonkey in a Konsole to see if I got any error messages when it
crashed.  This is what I get:

No running windows found

(gecko:12355): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 0x6EAD

(gecko:12355): Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x3f135c9 unexpectedly destroyed

(gecko:12355): Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x3f135b5 unexpectedly destroyed
/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 12355 Segmentation fault     
$(type -P aoss) "$mozbin" $xulparams "$@"
seamonkey-bin exited with non-zero status (139)


I must confess, I'm on dial-up so I open a TON, read that as a LOT, of
windows and tabs.  I may have 10 windows with a dozen or so tabs on
each.  I go take a nap while all that loads and read stuff when I get
back and it is done.  However, it is not site specific and there is no
flash, shockwave, or java on the pages.  Mostly text and pics.  Not even
any scripts on the pages.  I actually adblock a LOT of this anyway.   It
saves bandwidth.

The mentioned line in mozilla-launcher is below:

  # Will only wait here if browser was started by this script
  if [[ -n ${mozpid} ]]; then
    wait ${mozpid}
    retval=$?
    [[ ${retval} == 0 ]] \
      || echo "${mozbin##*/} exited with non-zero status (${retval})" >&2
    moz_pis_startstop_scripts stop
  fi

  exit $retval

The 3rd line is actually line 119 mentioned in the error.  How does a
"wait" make something crash?

What I have done so far.  I changed MAKEOPTS="-j2" to j1 just to see if
it would help any.  No change.  I also ran this emerge:

emerge --with-bdeps --oneshot --ask --verbose seamonkey gnupg pinentry
=x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r1 =x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.0.2-r1
=x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.7-r2 =x11-libs/pango-1.22.4 =dev-libs/glib-2.18.4-r1
=x11-libs/cairo-1.8.6-r1 =dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.3

That was done with the j1 setting.  Here is more info:

root@smoker / # emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc33 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2,
glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname:
Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r9-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2500+-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 25 May 2009 01:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7
dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r2
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.29
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d
/etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild
/etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs
protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/
ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/ "
LANG="en_US"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en_US en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=600"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X acl acpi alsa amd arts artswrappersuid automount berkdb
bzip2 cairo cddb cdr chroot cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd
dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam fdftk fortran gdbm gif
gimp gkrellm gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal hbci htmlhandbook iconv ipv6
isdnlog java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde kdeprefix ldap
libnotify libwww logrotate loop-aes mad midi mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg
mplayer mudflap ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ofx ogg opengl
openmp pam parport pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4
quicktime readline realmedia reflection sdl seamonkey session spell spl
sqlite sse ssl startup-notification svg sysfs syslog tcl tcpd tiff tk
truetype unicode usb vorbis webkit win32codecs wma wmf wmp x86 xml xorg
xv yahoo zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm
alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug
ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol" CAMERAS="canon ptp2" ELIBC="glibc"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en_US en"
USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

root@smoker / # 

About my rig for those who don't know already.  Abit NF7 v2.0 mobo, AMD
2500+ CPU, 2GBs of ram and about 1Gb of swap.  No overclocking either. 
I do have the mobile chip that can be overclocked but it's running stock
speed.

More info that may not be needed:

root@smoker / # cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 6
model           : 10
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
stepping        : 0
cpu MHz         : 1830.019
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow ts
bogomips        : 3662.81
clflush size    : 32

root@smoker / # 

One thing I do notice when it crashes, my CPU is running at or close to
100%.  I use Gkrellm to monitor this.  I have a huge heat sink on my
CPU.  It has never been over 100F even at 100%.  Right now, it is at 69F
for ambient and CPU is 82F.  Fan is temp controlled so speed varies.

Any ideas?  I'm using the same CFLAGS and such that I have been using
for ages.  This started several months ago.  I'm not sure if it is a new
thing or not or what version was the last stable one. 

Thanks for the help.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

[gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey and random crashes.

[walt]

Dale wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Every once in a while Seamonkey will crash...

My only suggestion would be to install seamonkey-bin, which is the
official build by mozilla.org, and see if you get the same error.
At least that would separate run-time problems from compile-time
problems.

I see an awful lot of those gnome-style error messages that don't
seem to affect anything, so it's very hard to know if they are
relevant or not.

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and random crashes.

[Nick Cunningham]

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How much RAM do you have? With all those windows and tabs open im guessing
your running out of RAM which may be causing the crashes, do you have a swap
file? If so, how big is it and have you tried increasing its size?

A big swap file may help, although dont expect your system to be responsive
:)

Alternatively, do you get the crashes with fewer windows and tabs open?

- Nick

2009/5/25 Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>

> Hi folks,
>
> Every once in a while Seamonkey will crash.  I been waiting for quite a
> while this time.  It doesn't happen to often but it is annoying.  This
> mostly happens when I am saving a picture and the save dialog box
> opens.  Usually during the save process, everything Seamonkey dies.  I
> ran Seamonkey in a Konsole to see if I got any error messages when it
> crashed.  This is what I get:
>
> No running windows found
>
> (gecko:12355): Pango-WARNING **: Error loading GSUB table 0x6EAD
>
> (gecko:12355): Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x3f135c9 unexpectedly destroyed
>
> (gecko:12355): Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x3f135b5 unexpectedly destroyed
> /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 119: 12355 Segmentation fault
> $(type -P aoss) "$mozbin" $xulparams "$@"
> seamonkey-bin exited with non-zero status (139)
>
>
> I must confess, I'm on dial-up so I open a TON, read that as a LOT, of
> windows and tabs.  I may have 10 windows with a dozen or so tabs on
> each.  I go take a nap while all that loads and read stuff when I get
> back and it is done.  However, it is not site specific and there is no
> flash, shockwave, or java on the pages.  Mostly text and pics.  Not even
> any scripts on the pages.  I actually adblock a LOT of this anyway.   It
> saves bandwidth.
>
> The mentioned line in mozilla-launcher is below:
>
>  # Will only wait here if browser was started by this script
>  if [[ -n ${mozpid} ]]; then
>    wait ${mozpid}
>    retval=$?
>    [[ ${retval} == 0 ]] \
>      || echo "${mozbin##*/} exited with non-zero status (${retval})" >&2
>    moz_pis_startstop_scripts stop
>  fi
>
>  exit $retval
>
> The 3rd line is actually line 119 mentioned in the error.  How does a
> "wait" make something crash?
>
> What I have done so far.  I changed MAKEOPTS="-j2" to j1 just to see if
> it would help any.  No change.  I also ran this emerge:
>
> emerge --with-bdeps --oneshot --ask --verbose seamonkey gnupg pinentry
> =x11-libs/qt-3.3.8b-r1 =x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.0.2-r1
> =x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.7-r2 =x11-libs/pango-1.22.4 =dev-libs/glib-2.18.4-r1
> =x11-libs/cairo-1.8.6-r1 =dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.3
>
> That was done with the j1 setting.  Here is more info:
>
> root@smoker / # emerge --info
> Portage 2.2_rc33 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2,
> glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 i686)
> =================================================================
> System uname:
> Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r9-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2500+-with-glibc2.0
> Timestamp of tree: Mon, 25 May 2009 01:15:01 +0000
> app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
> dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7
> dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r2
> dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4
> sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
> sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
> sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
> sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
> sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
> sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
> sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
> virtual/os-headers:  2.6.29
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
> CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
> /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
> CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d
> /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild
> /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
> CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
> DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
> FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs
> protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
> GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/
> ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/ "
> LANG="en_US"
> LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
> LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
> LINGUAS="en_US en"
> MAKEOPTS="-j2"
> PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
> PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=600"
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
> --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180
> --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
> PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
> SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
> USE="3dnow X acl acpi alsa amd arts artswrappersuid automount berkdb
> bzip2 cairo cddb cdr chroot cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd
> dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam fdftk fortran gdbm gif
> gimp gkrellm gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal hbci htmlhandbook iconv ipv6
> isdnlog java javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde kdeprefix ldap
> libnotify libwww logrotate loop-aes mad midi mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg
> mplayer mudflap ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ofx ogg opengl
> openmp pam parport pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4
> quicktime readline realmedia reflection sdl seamonkey session spell spl
> sqlite sse ssl startup-notification svg sysfs syslog tcl tcpd tiff tk
> truetype unicode usb vorbis webkit win32codecs wma wmf wmp x86 xml xorg
> xv yahoo zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm
> alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug
> ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route
> share shm softvol" CAMERAS="canon ptp2" ELIBC="glibc"
> INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en_US en"
> USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv"
> Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS,
> PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
>
> root@smoker / #
>
> About my rig for those who don't know already.  Abit NF7 v2.0 mobo, AMD
> 2500+ CPU, 2GBs of ram and about 1Gb of swap.  No overclocking either.
> I do have the mobile chip that can be overclocked but it's running stock
> speed.
>
> More info that may not be needed:
>
> root@smoker / # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 10
> model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
> stepping        : 0
> cpu MHz         : 1830.019
> cache size      : 512 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 1
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow ts
> bogomips        : 3662.81
> clflush size    : 32
>
> root@smoker / #
>
> One thing I do notice when it crashes, my CPU is running at or close to
> 100%.  I use Gkrellm to monitor this.  I have a huge heat sink on my
> CPU.  It has never been over 100F even at 100%.  Right now, it is at 69F
> for ambient and CPU is 82F.  Fan is temp controlled so speed varies.
>
> Any ideas?  I'm using the same CFLAGS and such that I have been using
> for ages.  This started several months ago.  I'm not sure if it is a new
> thing or not or what version was the last stable one.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>


-- 

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- "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."

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Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and random crashes.

[Dale]

Nick Cunningham wrote:
> How much RAM do you have? With all those windows and tabs open im
> guessing your running out of RAM which may be causing the crashes, do
> you have a swap file? If so, how big is it and have you tried
> increasing its size?
>  
> A big swap file may help, although dont expect your system to be
> responsive :)
>  
> Alternatively, do you get the crashes with fewer windows and tabs open?
>  
> - Nick
>

Inside that HUGE post was that info.  I have 2GBs of ram and 1GB of
swap.  It is not even using half that when it crashes.  No swap is used.

I don't get the crashes with just a few tabs/windows open.  I may try
running memtest next and see what that does.  Maybe it's a bad stick of
ram.  I didn't think about that.  Of course, I recently compiled OOo and
it did fine and so did gcc.  They use more ram than Seamonkey does but
will test anyway.

Still open to ideas tho.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Seamonkey and random crashes.

[Dale]

walt wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Every once in a while Seamonkey will crash...
>
> My only suggestion would be to install seamonkey-bin, which is the
> official build by mozilla.org, and see if you get the same error.
> At least that would separate run-time problems from compile-time
> problems.
>
> I see an awful lot of those gnome-style error messages that don't
> seem to affect anything, so it's very hard to know if they are
> relevant or not.
>
>
>

When I did the recompile, do you, or someone else, see any that I may
have missed that might cause this?  I do notice that it does it during
the save dialog part.  I'm not sure if the save dialog is part of
Seamonkey or a external part.  I think it is external but no clue what
it is or if I am right either.  For the record, I'm using KDE 3.  No
Gnome here except what is pulled in as a dependency.

Planning to run memtest in a little bit.  Will report back on that as well.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and random crashes.

[Dale]

Nick Cunningham wrote:
> How much RAM do you have? With all those windows and tabs open im
> guessing your running out of RAM which may be causing the crashes, do
> you have a swap file? If so, how big is it and have you tried
> increasing its size?
>  
> A big swap file may help, although dont expect your system to be
> responsive :)
>  
> Alternatively, do you get the crashes with fewer windows and tabs open?
>  
> - Nick
>

I ran memtest86 and it passed, about 38 times and the machine was warmed
up when it started.  I'm not sure how good memtest86 is but its what I
got to test with.

May try the binary Seamonkey next.  Pardon me while I go pray to the
porcelain god.  I hate binaries.

Still open to ideas tho.

Dale

:-)  :-)