Bug 505877

Summary: firefox hang
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Oliver Henshaw <oliver.henshaw>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: gecko-bugs-nobody, mcepl, walters
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Description Oliver Henshaw 2009-06-14 14:28:56 UTC
Created attachment 347822 [details]
pstack of hanging firefox process

Description of problem:

Firefox has been hanging/freezing a few times in the last few days, which is unusual here. The most recent time I captured a backtrace with pstack (attached). I see the java plugin is mentioned in the backtrace, could that be relevant? I don't think that I visit a lot of java-related sites, perhaps I can narrow down which I used recently.

I also dumped the core before I killed firefox, in case there's any useful information to be extracted from it.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

firefox-3.0.10-1.fc10.i386
java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-18.b16.fc10.i386
nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-2.fc10.i386

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2009-06-17 20:15:17 UTC
Created attachment 348336 [details]
Script for coredump analysis

just run the attached script with the core dump file, like

gbt firefox core-file-name

you will get a file firefox-backtrace-number.txt. Please attach it to this bug report.

Thank you

Comment 2 Oliver Henshaw 2009-06-19 14:01:55 UTC
I've since updated to firefox 3.0.11, so I can't trivially run your script on this system. I think I should be able to run it in mock, or with a liveusb+updates with a little work and the 3.0.10 rpms.

But I can't see what information this script provides that /usr/bin/pstack doesn't.

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2009-06-19 17:46:37 UTC
Dont' bother ... if you won't be able to reproduce the hang, somebody else will. I will give you a month, and if you won't be able to provide more detailed backtrace, only then I will close this bug.

Comment 4 Oliver Henshaw 2009-06-19 18:25:45 UTC
Can you tell me what is missing from the backtrace in attachment #347822 [details]? I prefer to reach for pstack than gdb+typing to get a backtrace from a running process, since it's possible to send the output to a file. So I'd like to know if and why pstack loses detail.

Both pstack and attachment #348336 [details] are gdb scripts, pstack just suppresses most output before 'thread apply all bt', and that seems to be mainly symbol loading.


Note: Attachment #341454 [details] contains a kded4 backtrace I made with gdb for another bug. I can't see any substantial difference between that backtrace and the one attached to this bug. But maybe I'm just lost in the noise?

Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2009-06-25 22:55:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> I've since updated to firefox 3.0.11, so I can't trivially run your script on
> this system. I think I should be able to run it in mock, or with a
> liveusb+updates with a little work and the 3.0.10 rpms.
> 
> But I can't see what information this script provides that /usr/bin/pstack
> doesn't.  

No, that's OK unless you are able to reproduce the issue with the current upgraded version of Firefox. If yes, then we would love to see new backatraces.

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2009-06-25 22:58:23 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Can you tell me what is missing from the backtrace in attachment #347822 [details]? I
> Both pstack and attachment #348336 [details] are gdb scripts, pstack just suppresses most
> output before 'thread apply all bt', and that seems to be mainly symbol
> loading.

Unfortunately not only. In you gdb backtrace you have also the line

0x00554416 in __kernel_vsyscall ()   

saying where actually was the processor in the moment of stopping the firefox process.

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