[25532] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.27: mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Winstein)
Sun Feb 29 19:11:02 2004
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:10:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Keith Winstein <keithw@mit.edu>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Robert A Basch wrote:
> 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?
Yes.
> If this problem occurs again, can you please check if esd is running,
> and, if so, whether killing it resolves the problem?
It looks like the problem occurs reliably for me when visiting
http://www.doonesbury.com in Mozilla on Linux/Athena, after hitting the
sound off button in the flash animation.
Killing esd does cause Mozilla to unfreeze.
Thanks for your help with this!
-Keith
