reassign 330606 firefox
close 330606 1.5.dfsg-1
thanks

* Nilesh Kapadia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I am having this problem (on i386) and I think I have found the source of
> the problem and a workaround. I start Firefox and it sits there loading. My
> CPU usage goes to 100% and it is sed that is using all the cpu. Once I kill
> the sed process Firefox starts up. This is what the processes look like:
> 
> 26956 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/firefox
> 26966 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/firefox
> 26970 ? R 1:13 sed -e s/\"//g
> 
> Looks like it has to do with this line from mozilla-firefox script:
> 
> JVM_VERSION=`${JVM_COMMAND} -version 2>&1 | grep version | cut -f 3 -d " " |
> sed -e 's/\"//g'`
> 
> This appears to be code that gets the Java version. I have tried Sun JDK
> 1.5.0_05 and 1.5.0_02 and they both exhibit the problem.
> 
> It looks like this line that comes before it is causing the problem:
> 
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
> 
> I was able to create a script that recreates the issue that looks like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
> echo `java -version 2>&1 | grep version | cut -f 3 -d " " | sed -e
> 's/\"//g'`
> 
> So I have commented out first occurance of the line "export
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" in mozilla-firefox script and it starts up fine now.

That code has been removed from the script in the latest versions, so
presumably this is fixed. 

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