From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjGSu-0005El-W2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:51:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A16C7E0AC7; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 22:59:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D82E0AC7 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 22:59:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31BA266F50 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 22:59:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.472 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.472 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.873, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Pmcf9AZHOHvq for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 22:59:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BAB65AC4 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 22:59:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MjLHH-0005dW-Vj for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:59:39 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-190-234.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.190.234]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:59:39 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-190-234.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:59:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Ephiphany hang at a certain directory Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:59:22 -0700 Message-ID: References: <7bef1f890909030248l152a6a84s8bf55a3f210e4e86@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-190-234.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090903 Shredder/3.0b4pre In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890909030248l152a6a84s8bf55a3f210e4e86@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 47ffff2f-f3bd-41fe-9896-7c0c13920c39 X-Archives-Hash: 00dc70b74bdfdd2d20fd20985d3e9bcd 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.