Bug#563106: iceweasel locks up system after saving multiple files to disk drive

Gary Dale garydale at rogers.com
Wed Dec 30 21:33:48 UTC 2009


Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.5.6-1
Severity: important

When I save a page with multiple elements on it, or save multiple pages 
with a few elements on it, or just save the elements (graphics mainly, I 
guess), iceweasel starts to slow my system down. If I catch it quickly 
enough, I can stop the slowdown by shutting down iceweasel then 
restarting it. If not, the systems becomes increasingly unresponsive 
until it eventually hangs or spontaneously reboots.

This is a real pain right now because I'm submitting online job 
applications and I save a copy of each job ad locally. The pages aren't 
the most visual things I've ever seen, but even saving one appears to be 
sufficient to start the slowdown.

I've noticed the same thing on other sites where I don't save the page - 
just individual elements from the page.

Simply browsing without saving doesn't trigger the problem. It's the 
saving locally that seems to be the culprit. And it appears to become 
noticeable somewhere at around 10 - 20 files saved.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii  debianutils                   3.2.2      Miscellaneous utilities 
specific t
ii  fontconfig                    2.6.0-4.2  generic font configuration 
library
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.3-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.18.3-1   The GTK+ graphical user 
interface
ii  libnspr4-0d                   4.8.2-1    NetScape Portable Runtime 
Library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.2-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  procps                        1:3.2.8-2  /proc file system utilities
ii  psmisc                        22.8-1     utilities that use the proc 
file s
ii  xulrunner-1.9.1               1.9.1.5-2  XUL + XPCOM application runner

iceweasel recommends no packages.

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