Bug 60333 – system freezes while using firefox

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel Gulotta 2004-08-14 08:38:24 UTC]

When I view sites with a lot of images in Firefox, the system freezes.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2. Go to kde-look.org or dilbert.com
3. Click on a few links

Actual Results:  
system freezes

Expected Results:  
page loads, no system freeze

The problem occurs with Firefox 0.9.3 and kernels 2.6.7-gentoo-r13 and 2.6.8-rc4

emerge info:
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-amd64-2004.2, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r1,
2.6.8-rc4a)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-rc4a x86_64 12
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo
http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa amd64 apm avi berkdb crypt emacs encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2
imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls nogcj oggvorbis
opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl tcpd
tetex truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-11-13 19:39:52 UTC]

Still a problem?  Is it just X freezing?  Can you ping the machine from another host when it's "frozen"?

[Comment 2 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-11-13 19:40:20 UTC]

.

[Comment 3 Daniel Gulotta 2004-11-13 20:16:41 UTC]

I've been away at school since September and haven't been able to update anything since then.  In about two weeks I'll have a chance to try the updates.  When the problem occurred X, sshd, and the capslock light all stopped responding.

[Comment 4 Daniel Gulotta 2004-11-26 16:43:16 UTC]

the bug still occurs with firefox 1.0_pre-r2 and gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r4

[Comment 5 Daniel Gulotta 2004-12-20 10:46:35 UTC]

I had the system freeze once while I was not using Firefox.  The freeze occurred when I closed the "Configure Konqueror" dialog.  In addition to konqueror, I was running xfce, xfterm, ssh, emerge, xmms, and a simple gtk application.

[Comment 6 Mo6eeeB 2005-01-03 11:41:35 UTC]

I was able to reproduce the bug and fix it, by downgrading freetype from 2.1.9 to 2.1.5 on firefox 1.0 and 1.0-r3, but a friend of mine reports, that he has never experienced the aforementioned bug, although he uses firefox 1.0-r3 and freetype 2.1.9

[Comment 7 Daniel Gulotta 2005-01-18 13:11:22 UTC]

I have been using freetype-2.1.5-r1.

[Comment 8 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2005-02-09 14:24:01 UTC]

Works fine for me on -r3 with freetype-2.1.5-r1 (which is the stable freetype).

[Comment 9 Daniel Gulotta 2005-06-08 16:36:59 UTC]

I installed Kubuntu and the system still freezes, so it's not just a Gentoo
problem.  I'll try installing FreeBSD to see if it is a hardware problem.

[Comment 10 Daniel Gulotta 2005-06-09 18:34:56 UTC]

It appears that the freeze is caused by the sis video driver.  Switching to vesa
seems to have fixed the problem.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3505