Bug 767048

Summary: Firefox triggers a metacity bug that locks up the entire desktop
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jeremy West <jwest>
Component: metacityAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.3CC: bgollahe, cschalle, joshua.weage, mboisver, otaylor, tpelka
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Description Jeremy West 2011-12-13 03:53:50 UTC
Description of problem:
When using firefox to connect to luci and configure HA services, the window manager occasionally locks up completely.  The only solution is to then switch to a virt console and kill metacity.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 6.2 GA

How reproducible:
Randomly while using the luci web client to configure a cluster, however 3 out of 4 systems today exhibited the problem and after putting selinux into permissive mode the problem seems to not be reproducible.  

It's very likely that other web activity (using firefox) will also trigger this bug.

Comment 1 Tomas Pelka 2011-12-13 15:42:44 UTC
Hi Jeremy,

1) is it HW specific, Paul told me that you found it on some T61, if so please add lspci -nn output to this bug 

2) what about firefox 8 from brew,there are build available for rhel6

3) I filled maybe similar issue with beaker, it cause like 20sec hang but after approximately 20 seconds everything work just fine. How long have you wait before you killed metacity?

4) I the luci web client available somewhere for testing?

Thanks Tom

Comment 2 Tomas Pelka 2011-12-13 15:43:29 UTC
More likely a SELinux bug.

Comment 4 Suzanne Logcher 2012-02-14 23:24:15 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.

Comment 5 Joshua Weage 2012-06-08 20:14:06 UTC
This appears to be caused by more than Firefox.  I just installed 6.2 on a workstation with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 video card.  I have disabled the nouveau driver.  The desktop locks up after a few minutes with and without NVIDIA binary graphics drivers.  Switching to a virtual terminal, I can see metacity using 99% CPU and the VIRT and RES memory values are climbing.  VIRT exceeds 1100g.

Output from ltrace -i -S -p:

10979 [0x7f0a8de517e6] SYS_futex(0x17d16e0, 134, 1, 0, 0)                                          = -513
10979 [0x7f0a8de517e6] --- SIGTERM (Terminated) ---
10979 [0x42cd1d] write(4, "", 1 <unfinished ...>
10979 [0x7f0a8ef91a2d] SYS_write(4, "", 1)                                                         = 1
10979 [0x42cd1d] <... write resumed> )                                                             = 1
10979 [0x42cd28] close(4 <unfinished ...>
10979 [0x7f0a8ef9196d] SYS_close(4)                                                                = 0
10979 [0x42cd28] <... close resumed> )                                                             = 0
10979 [0x7f0a8eeeb909] SYS_rt_sigreturn(0, 0x46fa1c, 0, 0x7fff38672f30, 0)                         = 202
10979 [0x7f0a8de517e6] SYS_futex(0x17d16e0, 134, 1, 0, 0 <no return ...>
10979 [0xffffffffffffffff] +++ killed by SIGKILL +++

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2012-09-18 18:31:30 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2013-10-14 00:52:23 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 10 Red Hat Bugzilla Rules Engine 2017-12-01 21:35:51 UTC
Product Management has reviewed and declined this request.
You may appeal this decision by reopening this request.