Re: [arch-general] Firefox on Arch - crash on exit
Hi! In data lunedì 20 luglio 2009 06:48:00, Tim Gelter ha scritto: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. Mmm I remember something like this happening on Windows (*cough*) machines at school. The solution was to clear the hidden Application Data (or what is called) folder under Documents and Settings. Here probably is something like a lock file, I think. Ciao! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com
Re: [arch-general] Firefox on Arch - crash on exit
2009/7/20 Dario carotin...@yahoo.it: Hi! In data lunedì 20 luglio 2009 06:48:00, Tim Gelter ha scritto: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. Mmm I remember something like this happening on Windows (*cough*) machines at school. The solution was to clear the hidden Application Data (or what is called) folder under Documents and Settings. Here probably is something like a lock file, I think. Ciao! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com In ~/.config/mozilla/firefox/[profile] there will be 2 files, lock and .parent_lock that need to be removed, at least those are the offending 2 when this has happened to me.
Re: [arch-general] Firefox on Arch - crash on exit
Thank you! This works fine! Greetings :) Am Jul 20, 2009 um 9:45 AM schrieb Damien Churchill: 2009/7/20 Dario carotin...@yahoo.it: Hi! In data lunedì 20 luglio 2009 06:48:00, Tim Gelter ha scritto: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. Mmm I remember something like this happening on Windows (*cough*) machines at school. The solution was to clear the hidden Application Data (or what is called) folder under Documents and Settings. Here probably is something like a lock file, I think. Ciao! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com In ~/.config/mozilla/firefox/[profile] there will be 2 files, lock and .parent_lock that need to be removed, at least those are the offending 2 when this has happened to me.
Re: [arch-general] Firefox on Arch - crash on exit
Damien Churchill wrote: 2009/7/20 Dario carotin...@yahoo.it: Hi! In data lunedì 20 luglio 2009 06:48:00, Tim Gelter ha scritto: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. Mmm I remember something like this happening on Windows (*cough*) machines at school. The solution was to clear the hidden Application Data (or what is called) folder under Documents and Settings. Here probably is something like a lock file, I think. Ciao! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com In ~/.config/mozilla/firefox/[profile] there will be 2 files, lock and .parent_lock that need to be removed, at least those are the offending 2 when this has happened to me. In my case, this isn't a lock file issue. As I explained in my email that triggered this thread, the firefox process does in fact continue running after I attempt to close firefox. It'll run (consuming very little resources) for as long as it takes (minutes, hours, whatever) for me to decide to launch firefox again. At this point, I must kill the existing firefox process before launching firefox once more. Again, this isn't a lock file issue in my case. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Firefox on Arch - crash on exit
Andrei Thorp wrote: Excerpts from Tim Gelter's message of Mon Jul 20 10:48:54 -0400 2009: Damien Churchill wrote: 2009/7/20 Dario carotin...@yahoo.it: Hi! In data lunedì 20 luglio 2009 06:48:00, Tim Gelter ha scritto: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. Mmm I remember something like this happening on Windows (*cough*) machines at school. The solution was to clear the hidden Application Data (or what is called) folder under Documents and Settings. Here probably is something like a lock file, I think. Ciao! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com In ~/.config/mozilla/firefox/[profile] there will be 2 files, lock and .parent_lock that need to be removed, at least those are the offending 2 when this has happened to me. In my case, this isn't a lock file issue. As I explained in my email that triggered this thread, the firefox process does in fact continue running after I attempt to close firefox. It'll run (consuming very little resources) for as long as it takes (minutes, hours, whatever) for me to decide to launch firefox again. At this point, I must kill the existing firefox process before launching firefox once more. Again, this isn't a lock file issue in my case. I don't know what you issue is (though I don't find Firefox good in general), but I can provide you a way to automatically kill Firefox on firefox exit if you like... (just a wrapper shell script/alias) I appreciate the offer, but it'd be easy enough to do something like: alias firefox=killall firefox firefox What I'm looking for is an answer to why Firefox has this issue on arch, but not on other mainstream distros. Or am I really the only user experiencing this issue? (other than the couple of guys who responded saying that deleting a lock file or two solved the issue for them) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Firefox on Arch - crash on exit
On Monday 20 July 2009 17:18:38 Tim Gelter wrote: Andrei Thorp wrote: Excerpts from Tim Gelter's message of Mon Jul 20 10:48:54 -0400 2009: Damien Churchill wrote: 2009/7/20 Dario carotin...@yahoo.it: Hi! In data lunedì 20 luglio 2009 06:48:00, Tim Gelter ha scritto: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. Mmm I remember something like this happening on Windows (*cough*) machines at school. The solution was to clear the hidden Application Data (or what is called) folder under Documents and Settings. Here probably is something like a lock file, I think. Ciao! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com In ~/.config/mozilla/firefox/[profile] there will be 2 files, lock and .parent_lock that need to be removed, at least those are the offending 2 when this has happened to me. In my case, this isn't a lock file issue. As I explained in my email that triggered this thread, the firefox process does in fact continue running after I attempt to close firefox. It'll run (consuming very little resources) for as long as it takes (minutes, hours, whatever) for me to decide to launch firefox again. At this point, I must kill the existing firefox process before launching firefox once more. Again, this isn't a lock file issue in my case. I don't know what you issue is (though I don't find Firefox good in general), but I can provide you a way to automatically kill Firefox on firefox exit if you like... (just a wrapper shell script/alias) I appreciate the offer, but it'd be easy enough to do something like: alias firefox=killall firefox firefox What I'm looking for is an answer to why Firefox has this issue on arch, but not on other mainstream distros. Or am I really the only user experiencing this issue? (other than the couple of guys who responded saying that deleting a lock file or two solved the issue for them) I experience this troubles too, no lock files, just process running even after closing FF's main window. I have Arch64, FF 3.5.1 -- - Dan Vrátil vra...@progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber prog...@jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870 http://www.progdan.homelinux.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [arch-general] Firefox on Arch - crash on exit
Excerpts from Tim Gelter's message of Mon Jul 20 11:18:38 -0400 2009: Andrei Thorp wrote: Excerpts from Tim Gelter's message of Mon Jul 20 10:48:54 -0400 2009: Damien Churchill wrote: 2009/7/20 Dario carotin...@yahoo.it: Hi! In data lunedì 20 luglio 2009 06:48:00, Tim Gelter ha scritto: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. Mmm I remember something like this happening on Windows (*cough*) machines at school. The solution was to clear the hidden Application Data (or what is called) folder under Documents and Settings. Here probably is something like a lock file, I think. Ciao! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com In ~/.config/mozilla/firefox/[profile] there will be 2 files, lock and .parent_lock that need to be removed, at least those are the offending 2 when this has happened to me. In my case, this isn't a lock file issue. As I explained in my email that triggered this thread, the firefox process does in fact continue running after I attempt to close firefox. It'll run (consuming very little resources) for as long as it takes (minutes, hours, whatever) for me to decide to launch firefox again. At this point, I must kill the existing firefox process before launching firefox once more. Again, this isn't a lock file issue in my case. I don't know what you issue is (though I don't find Firefox good in general), but I can provide you a way to automatically kill Firefox on firefox exit if you like... (just a wrapper shell script/alias) I appreciate the offer, but it'd be easy enough to do something like: alias firefox=killall firefox firefox What I'm looking for is an answer to why Firefox has this issue on arch, but not on other mainstream distros. Or am I really the only user experiencing this issue? (other than the couple of guys who responded saying that deleting a lock file or two solved the issue for them) Yeah, I figured you'd know how to do this. I can't speak for everyone, but I have no such issues like this with Firefox personally, I'm sorry to say. -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)
Re: [arch-general] Firefox on Arch - crash on exit
Andrei Thorp wrote: Excerpts from Tim Gelter's message of Mon Jul 20 11:18:38 -0400 2009: Andrei Thorp wrote: Excerpts from Tim Gelter's message of Mon Jul 20 10:48:54 -0400 2009: Damien Churchill wrote: 2009/7/20 Dario carotin...@yahoo.it: Hi! In data lunedì 20 luglio 2009 06:48:00, Tim Gelter ha scritto: Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system. Mmm I remember something like this happening on Windows (*cough*) machines at school. The solution was to clear the hidden Application Data (or what is called) folder under Documents and Settings. Here probably is something like a lock file, I think. Ciao! Carotinho Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com In ~/.config/mozilla/firefox/[profile] there will be 2 files, lock and .parent_lock that need to be removed, at least those are the offending 2 when this has happened to me. In my case, this isn't a lock file issue. As I explained in my email that triggered this thread, the firefox process does in fact continue running after I attempt to close firefox. It'll run (consuming very little resources) for as long as it takes (minutes, hours, whatever) for me to decide to launch firefox again. At this point, I must kill the existing firefox process before launching firefox once more. Again, this isn't a lock file issue in my case. I don't know what you issue is (though I don't find Firefox good in general), but I can provide you a way to automatically kill Firefox on firefox exit if you like... (just a wrapper shell script/alias) I appreciate the offer, but it'd be easy enough to do something like: alias firefox=killall firefox firefox What I'm looking for is an answer to why Firefox has this issue on arch, but not on other mainstream distros. Or am I really the only user experiencing this issue? (other than the couple of guys who responded saying that deleting a lock file or two solved the issue for them) Yeah, I figured you'd know how to do this. I can't speak for everyone, but I have no such issues like this with Firefox personally, I'm sorry to say. To whomever might have insight into what's happening, here is what happens if I attach to the running firefox process after closing firefox. I can also attach a trace of firefox from the beginning of operation if that would help. If this is better meant to be included as a bug report, I can certainly do that but I fear it'll be rejected as works for me by a developer as it seems it only affects some of us. # ps -ef | grep -i firefox tgelter 4688 4329 2 08:40 ?00:01:23 /usr/bin/firefox root ~ # strace -p 4688 Process 4688 attached - interrupt to quit futex(0x7fea3538c0d0, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL ^C unfinished ... Process 4688 detached signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Firefox on Arch - crash on exit
Tim Gelter wrote: I appreciate the offer, but it'd be easy enough to do something like: alias firefox=killall firefox firefox What I'm looking for is an answer to why Firefox has this issue on arch, but not on other mainstream distros. Or am I really the only user experiencing this issue? (other than the couple of guys who responded saying that deleting a lock file or two solved the issue for them) I experienced the same issues (in Kubuntu, though) when using gtk-qt-engine. I switched to qtcurve and firefox closed normally.
Re: [arch-general] Firefox on Arch - crash on exit
Octavian Florea wrote: Tim Gelter wrote: I appreciate the offer, but it'd be easy enough to do something like: alias firefox=killall firefox firefox What I'm looking for is an answer to why Firefox has this issue on arch, but not on other mainstream distros. Or am I really the only user experiencing this issue? (other than the couple of guys who responded saying that deleting a lock file or two solved the issue for them) I experienced the same issues (in Kubuntu, though) when using gtk-qt-engine. I switched to qtcurve and firefox closed normally. interesting. I too am using gtk-qt-engine. I'll get rid of it to see if that helps. For what it's worth, rather than using qtcurve, I'm going to use gtk-kde4-oxygen-theme instead. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Firefox on Arch - crash on exit
Tim Gelter wrote: Octavian Florea wrote: Tim Gelter wrote: I appreciate the offer, but it'd be easy enough to do something like: alias firefox=killall firefox firefox What I'm looking for is an answer to why Firefox has this issue on arch, but not on other mainstream distros. Or am I really the only user experiencing this issue? (other than the couple of guys who responded saying that deleting a lock file or two solved the issue for them) I experienced the same issues (in Kubuntu, though) when using gtk-qt-engine. I switched to qtcurve and firefox closed normally. interesting. I too am using gtk-qt-engine. I'll get rid of it to see if that helps. For what it's worth, rather than using qtcurve, I'm going to use gtk-kde4-oxygen-theme instead. Well, it appears that Octavian tracked down the issue to gtk-qt-engine. I'm not having trouble anymore since removing it. The question still remains then, why does gtk-qt-engine cause trouble on Arch and not on Ubuntu/Fedora? I suppose that's a question I'll have to bring up with the kdemod developers. Thank you all for your help! -Tim signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[arch-general] Firefox on Arch - crash on exit
Hello listmates,
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on what's going on with Firefox.
While running arch (not ubuntu 9.04/fedora 11 which I also have
installed on the same laptop), I run into the following scenario nearly
every time I attempt to launch Firefox.
Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new
window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart
your system.
Sure enough, I'm not being lied to:
$ ps -ef | grep firefox
tgelter 10871 4318 2 22:30 ?00:00:02 /usr/bin/firefox
$ killall firefox firefox
and I'm in business.
The thing is, it doesn't matter how I shut down Firefox (click the X,
file-quit, ctrl+w closing each tab until the last takes down Firefox),
I always end up in the same situation. I went to #archlinux on freenode
to talk about the issue a while back (this issue has been plaguing me
for weeks) and was told to try disabling extensions/themes, creating a
new profile and using that, pacman -Rsn firefox pacman -Sy
firefoxing, I even got so fed up that I did a fresh install on a new
partition and tried again. Nothing has worked, at all. Following is my
info, I really doubt I'm the first person to run into this so please,
can anyone help?
arch x86_64 on a Lenovo T61 laptop (nvidia video card w/ proprietary driver)
x86_64 version of Firefox, x86_64 versions of jre/flash installed (this
is a must)
I run a kde 4.2.4 desktop installed from kdemod.
$ pacman -Sl | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c
1900 community
175 core
1983 extra
390 kdemod-core
82 kdemod-extragear
62 kdemod-playground
As you can see above, I don't have any testing/unstable packages
installed though there are some from extra kdemod-playground.
If you need any other info, let me know. Remember this problem only
happens under arch, I have the same usage patterns and package
selections under Fedora/Ubuntu as far as I know.
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Re: [arch-general] Firefox on Arch - crash on exit
hmm, i could only trigger it once and when i attached to the process with strace i saw it hung on EAGAIN i quit the browser while watching a youtube video which sort of aligns with the EAGAIN error
