[25531] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.27: mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Sun Feb 29 18:26:41 2004
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:26:34 -0500
Message-Id: <200402292326.i1TNQYgQ009192@anhedonia.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
To: Keith Winstein <keithw@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: "[25521] in Athena Bugs"
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
Hi.
Thanks for your bug report about Mozilla hanging when trying to talk
to esd. This was likely a problem with esd (though ideally Mozilla
would not hang in this situation). I was unable to reproduce the bug,
but, by using a debugger to stop the esd process, I did confirm that
Mozilla hangs in that situation. Unfortunately, Mozilla will always
use esd when the latter is running, and cannot be easily modified to
do otherwise.
> was trying to read or write /tmp/.esd/socket. Removing the /tmp/.esd
> directory made Mozilla work again.
I assume you were the owner of /tmp/.esd/socket?
If this problem occurs again, can you please check if esd is running,
and, if so, whether killing it resolves the problem?
Thanks,
Bob
