Here's an extract from a strace: rt_sigaction(SIGRT_1, {0x7923a1349720, [], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO, 0x7923a1352a00}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [RTMIN RT_1], NULL, 8) = 0 getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=8192*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0 lstat("/usr", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 lstat("/usr/lib64", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=57344, ...}) = 0 lstat("/usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 lstat("/usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/firefox", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=92240, ...}) = 0 stat("/usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/firefox", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=92240, ...}) = 0 access("/usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/xulrunner/libxpcom.so", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/proc/cpuinfo", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "processor\t: 0\nvendor_id\t: Genuine"..., 1024) = 1024 read(3, "\t: 2\ninitial apicid\t: 2\nfpu\t\t: ye"..., 1024) = 1024 read(3, " arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good x"..., 1024) = 1024 read(3, "ts physical, 48 bits virtual\npowe"..., 1024) = 1024 read(3, "\nsiblings\t: 8\ncore id\t\t: 1\ncpu co"..., 1024) = 1024 read(3, "2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp "..., 1024) = 1024 read(3, "\t: 64\ncache_alignment\t: 64\naddres"..., 1024) = 96 read(3, ""..., 1024) = 0 close(3) = 0 readlink("/etc/malloc.conf", 0x7f018d5ad0d0, 4096) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mmap(NULL, 1048576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7923a165c000 mmap(NULL, 2097152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x79239ff4a000 munmap(0x79239ff4a000, 2097152) = 0 mmap(0x7923a0100000, 2097152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x79239ff4a000 munmap(0x79239ff4a000, 2097152) = 0 mmap(NULL, 3145728, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x79239fe4a000 munmap(0x79239fe4a000, 3145728) = 0 mmap(0x79239ff00000, 2097152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x79239ff4a000 munmap(0x79239ff4a000, 2097152) = 0 mmap(NULL, 3145728, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x79239fe4a000 munmap(0x79239fe4a000, 3145728) = 0 mmap(0x79239ff00000, 2097152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x79239ff4a000 munmap(0x79239ff4a000, 2097152) = 0 mmap(NULL, 3145728, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x79239fe4a000 munmap(0x79239fe4a000, 3145728) = 0 mmap(0x79239ff00000, 2097152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x79239ff4a000 munmap(0x79239ff4a000, 2097152) = 0 mmap(NULL, 3145728, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x79239fe4a000 munmap(0x79239fe4a000, 3145728) = 0 mmap(0x79239ff00000, 2097152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x79239ff4a000 munmap(0x79239ff4a000, 2097152) = 0 etc. etc. I (attempted) to fix the xulrunner link problem access("/usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/xulrunner/libxpcom.so", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) with a soft link "ln -s /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1.2 xulrunner" (within /usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox) This fixed the access, but the browser still looped/hung up stat("/usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/firefox", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=92240, ...}) = 0 access("/usr/lib64/mozilla-firefox/xulrunner/libxpcom.so", R_OK) = 0 open("/proc/cpuinfo", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "processor\t: 0\nvendor_id\t: Genuine"..., 1024) = 1024 read(3, "\t: 2\ninitial apicid\t: 2\nfpu\t\t: ye"..., 1024) = 1024 read(3, " arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good x"..., 1024) = 1024 FF/xulrunner each compiled successfully; I recompiled nss and ran revdep-rebuild. This failure also occured with the plain-jane version of gcc. here's my stuff: # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (hardened/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.28-hardened-r9 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-hardened-r9-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -msse4 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo /usr/local/toolchain-overlay/distfiles" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--warn-once,--hash-style=gnu" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/toolchain-overlay" SYNC="rsync://gentoo.llarian.net/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 chroot cli cracklib crypt cups cupsddk dbus dri dynamicplugin enigmail escreen extensions gdbm geoip gif gpm gtk gtk+ hardened hddtemp iconv idn ipv6 isdnlog jpeg justify keyscrub ldap lm_sensors loop-aes mmx mpe mudflap multilib ncurses nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia pam passwordsave pcre perl pic pppd python qt-static qt3support qt4 readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd toolbar truetype unicode urandom vim-with-x xorg xscreensave xulrunner zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nividia vesa intel i810" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 278698 ***