Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:47:37 -0400 (EDT) | From | Felix Braun <> | Subject | Re: Random lockups with kernels 2.4.6-pre8+ |
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Hi again,
I have been able to reproduce the locking-up behaviour! It occurs every time I start Mozilla (0.9.2) or gtkEmbed. Other memory intensive programs (GIMP) don't have that behaviour.
Strangely enough, the system remains mostly functional: I can switch consoles, X and Enlightenment remain responsive, I can even execute some programs. But programs that deal with mozillas /proc entries just hang. top and ps hang; also if I cd into /proc/<mozilla's pid> and do an ls *block*; you can't even kill it with CTRL-C. Listing other subdirs works fine though. Other things that hang are w and xdm-greeter.
Considering these symptoms, it seems to be more of an issue with mozilla than with the kernel. Still, I don't know why the ls /proc/mozilla should block. Also things work perfectly with kernel 2.4.6-pre5.
Can anybody reproduce the symptoms, tell me whether this is a problem with the kernel, mozilla or both, or provide me with other insight? I'd appreciate it very much!
Bye Felix
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