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PhiJ
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 Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject: npviewer.bin segfaults and firefox can't handle it (I think) |
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Hi,
my firefox keeps locking up. Just occasionally, and I can always restart (then it works fine), but obviously nobody can help me with that little info. So... how would I obtain more info so that I can get some useful help for it?
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notHerbert
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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PhiJ,
Try this | Code: | | mv $HOME/.mozilla $HOME/.mozilla.backup |
and restart firefox.
If it still crashes post output of emerge --info |
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PhiJ
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, still crashes (although it hasn't for a while). Seems to be to do with npviewer.bin, which is flash related (I think it might be to do with nspluginwrapper). I discovered that the major problem was that at the crash all of my memory (1003.9MiB) and swap (494.2MiB) were being used. Closing firefox didn't help, but often leaves a little blank npviewer.bin window, which was what used all the resources.
Oh, and emerge --info is
| Quote: | Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:00:01 +0000
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_GB.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en_GB en"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
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"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="R X a52 aac acl alsa amd64 avahi berkdb bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr emboss encode esd firefox fortran ftp gdbm gif ginac gnome gnuplot gpm gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde latex midi mime mmx mp3 mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt4 readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs syslog tcpd tetex tiff unicode usb xorg 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="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY |
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Drone1
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| Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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Have you been able to consistently reproduce the crash? As example, if you go to the adobe site here, does it crash? If shockwave comes up 'not installed', and you click to install that plugin from the dialog, does FF crash?
Which versions of firefox and nspluginwrapper do you have installed? |
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PhiJ
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| No. For instance, visiting that site make the firefox-bin process go from 34.1 MiB to 55 MiB memory usage. It only happens occasionally (thankfully). I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.17, and have just updated my portage tree, which included nspluginwrapper 1.0.0 (I was using 0.9.91.5 before), so maybe that'll fix it. It does say it fixes crashes with Flash Player 9 Update 3 (9.0.115), but I have 9.0.124.0. |
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paulbiz
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| Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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In my experience flash is totally unstable. Sometimes it just does not work at all for 2 days, then starts working great again for no apparent reason. My browser (seamonkey or FF3) will randomly freeze, flash is always the reason. Unfortunately it's hard to get along the web without it, but if you can survive a flash-free world, I'd highly recommend just getting rid of it entirely and enjoying your stable firefox. 
I think there were also some flash-related issues that were fixed in the latest Firefox (which I know you're not even at 3 yet so it won't help you), but if you're able to upgrade to FF 3.x it might help as well. |
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PhiJ
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:08 am Post subject: |
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| I may well do, after I've given it a couple of weeks to see if the update helps. I usually go by a 'the devs have probably got a good reason for not updating us yet' so I'll stick with the latest one marked as stable in portage, but as usual it seems to be that it just hasn't been tested enough on amd64. |
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PhiJ
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, it still happens every now and then.
It just happened now, and I noticed a bit of the kernel log that would be of interest:
| Quote: | Jan 28 18:32:12 [kernel] Adding 506036k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:
1 across:506036k
Jan 28 18:32:47 [kernel] NET: Registered protocol family 10
Jan 28 18:32:47 [kernel] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
Jan 28 18:32:58 [kernel] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Jan 28 18:45:53 [kernel] npviewer.bin[4158]: segfault at f58d5030 ip 00000000f797a440 sp 00000000ff9dadd8 error 4 in libpthread-2.6.1.so[f7973000+13000]
Jan 28 19:16:33 [kernel] npviewer.bin[4644]: segfault at f5838030 ip 00000000f78dd440 sp 00000000ff83ff58 error 4 in libpthread-2.6.1.so[f78d6000+13000]
Jan 28 19:17:25 [kernel] npviewer.bin[5093]: segfault at f57fc030 ip 00000000f78a1440 sp 00000000ff905828 error 4 in libpthread-2.6.1.so[f789a000+13000]
Jan 28 19:45:01 [kernel] npviewer.bin[5543]: segfault at f580b030 ip 00000000f78b0440 sp 00000000ffc15338 error 4 in libpthread-2.6.1.so[f78a9000+13000]
Jan 28 22:08:06 [kernel] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Jan 28 22:08:06 [kernel] Linux version 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 (root@PhiJ) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)) #1 SMP Fri Jan 9 22:39:21 GMT 2009
Jan 28 22:08:06 [kernel] Command line: root=/dev/hda3 vga=1024x768x32@85
Jan 28 22:08:06 [kernel] KERNEL supported cpus:
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That segfault happened about 15-25 mins before my computer suddenly slowed and the hard drive light went crazy ... it appears I was out of swap space again. |
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