Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78969
xinetd appears to lock up system when mozilla is launched
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:50 EDT
Description of Problem: xinetd was updated using up2date. When mozilla is launched, the mozilla dialog box opens, but is blank. mouse is slow and erratic. System locks up. mouse does not respond to commands. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0 mozilla 1.0.1-26 xinetd 2.3.7-5 How Reproducible: easily reproduced Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot into xwindows 2. log on as root 3. launch mozilla Actual Results: mozilla dialog box opens but is blank and system locks (possible excessive use of cpu) after about 5 minutes just the text of the url appears Expected Results: mozilla dialog box opens, loads, and access to internet is started Additional Information: all software comes from redhat. all updates were determined and administered by up2date
xinetd WORKSFORME after up2date. This may be a Mozilla quirk (in which case Component == mozilla). Do this first - restart the xinetd daemon. # /etc/init.d/xinetd restart See if this corrects the problem. Do this second (if nothing changes after the first) - Open a console _prior_ to starting Mozilla. Run the following in the console: $ strace /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1/mozilla-bin 2> mozilla-bin_strace.stderr Mozilla should pop up and freeze. Switch back to the console. CTRL+C to abort the strace (which will also kill the mozilla-bin process), thereby restoring control to your system. Attach the mozilla-bin_strace.stderr file to this bug so that we can see what is happening on your system (the file will more than likely be quite large).
Created attachment 87444 [details] strace you asked for
restart of the xinetd daemon had no effect. when running strace I conld not switch back to the console. CTRL+C did not work I had to press the reset switch.
Try stopping the xinetd service and then start Mozilla does the mozilla start correctly? If not then this is a mozilla problem and not an xinetd problem. Dan
After logging on as root, I stopped xinetd. I then started mozilla. I got the same result as before. An interesting note, mozilla works when I'm signed on as a user. Based on the results, Dan stated this is a mozilla issue. how should I procede?
I have no idea how this could even possibly be a Mozilla issue. The two programs don't interact as far as I know.
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.