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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:59:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h7pho4$v55$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890909030248l152a6a84s8bf55a3f210e4e86@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/03/2009 02:48 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to
> a certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file
> to an email in gmail, firefox hangs...

You could try starting firefox from a command prompt like this:

$firefox foo  (where foo is the name of the guilty subdirectory.)  You
might see some error messages on the console, or not.

Perhaps running firefox with strace would give you a hint which file
is causing the hangup.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-03 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-03  9:48 [gentoo-user] Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory Alan E. Davis
2009-09-03 10:04 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-03 15:13 ` Stroller
2009-09-03 21:56   ` Alan E. Davis
2009-09-03 23:55     ` Frank Steinmetzger
2009-09-04  7:13     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-09-03 22:59 ` walt [this message]

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