When clicking on certain links to download files, firefox seems to hang. The status bar says "Waiting for <site name>", but the spinner stops spinning, the window doesn't repaint, I can't scroll, clicking tabs won't switch windows, and clicking the close-window [x] in the title bar doesn't close firefox. I have to kill it from the command line (though not kill -9). Using wget on these links seems to work fine. Here are some links which produce this behavior: - The link to http://de-fac.to/filestore2/download/15 on the page http://de-fac.to/node/view/15. - The link to http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu/xmas2004/A_Singular_Christmas.zip on the page http://eigenradio.media.mit.edu/christmas_2004.html - Downloading j2sdk-1_4_2-doc.zip from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html I have installed the extenstions Moji (0.7.9) and Moji-En (0.3), but I was able to reproduce this behavior without an existing ~/.mozilla as well. # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6 .11-gentoo-r9 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r9 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.8 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X1 1/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acpi alsa anthy apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cjk cryp t curl dba doc dvd dvdr dvdread dxr3 eds encode esd fam flac font-server fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 guile imap imlib ipv6 java javascript jp2 jpeg latex l ibwww lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mjpeg mng motif mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mysql ncurses nls nodrm nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl php plotutils png python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl ssl tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff tru etype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vcd vorbis wmf xanim xi m xine xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux el ibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Update -- I've found that when it hangs, it will eventually come back with the "save as" dialog or whatever, but it takes something like 10 minutes. I've found this same behavior with evince and kpdf (but xpdf is fine), so perhaps it's some common underlying library.... This is running under fluxbox-0.9.13-r1, btw.
Mine locks up too. I am running 1.06-r2. For me, it is not only download links, but some regular sites also cause the behavior. It seems to be mostly sites that have ads or flash. The only plugins that I have are java and adobe. I think this should be severe priority because it locks on about half of the sites that I go to. It is terribly unstable and very annoying. I have tried uninstalling and recompiling and the problem still persists.
I believe I've found what was causing this. strace-ing gedit showed that it was hanging on trying to connect to the portmapper service on the localhost, and my firewall was dropping those packets, resulting in a timeout condition. From the strace, it tries to bind to a priveleged port around the range 1013--1021, and tries to connect to 127.0.0.1:111. Why it needs a priveleged port I don't know, but the fam source code looks like it does something like this, so perhaps that's where it's coming from? (fam is one of 129 common requirements between mozilla-firefox, evince, kpdf, and gedit on my system) I added a rule to accept packets from interface 'lo', which is hopefully harmless enough, and now these programs start without problems.
