mozilla (both 1.2.1-r4 and 1.0.1) hang on my machine without an error message. strace /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin reveals it gets stuck in a loop poll()ing, and part of the gdb backtrace is below. USE is -java and mozno<everything allowed>, but the problem persists even without the mozno* flags set. running on a ppc with pretty much the default CFLAGS. #0 0x0ff2f254 in js_CloseTokenStream () from /usr/lib/mozilla/libmozjs.so #1 0x0ff30188 in js_GetToken () from /usr/lib/mozilla/libmozjs.so #2 0x0ff261d0 in js_CompileFunctionBody () from /usr/lib/mozilla/libmozjs.so #3 0x0ff25efc in js_CompileFunctionBody () from /usr/lib/mozilla/libmozjs.so ... #34 0x0ff226c8 in js_CompileFunctionBody () from /usr/lib/mozilla/libmozjs.so #35 0x0ff218cc in js_CompileTokenStream () from /usr/lib/mozilla/libmozjs.so #36 0x0fedded8 in JS_DefineFunction () from /usr/lib/mozilla/libmozjs.so #37 0x0fede11c in JS_CompileUCScriptForPrincipals () from /usr/lib/mozilla/libmozjs.so #38 0x0fedefec in JS_EvaluateUCScriptForPrincipals () from /usr/lib/mozilla/libmozjs.so #39 0x0fedefac in JS_EvaluateUCScript () from /usr/lib/mozilla/libmozjs.so #40 0x0fedee68 in JS_EvaluateScript () from /usr/lib/mozilla/libmozjs.so #41 0x0f4e618c in NSGetModule () from /usr/lib/mozilla/components/libpref.so #42 0x0f4e3900 in _SDA_BASE_ () from /usr/lib/mozilla/components/libpref.so #43 0x0f4e3cb8 in _SDA_BASE_ () from /usr/lib/mozilla/components/libpref.so ...
an emerge --deep seems to have fixed the problem. can be closed.
Ok, closing as WORKSFORME then thank for your report anyway