Bug#639837: UI hangs for 30s while loading pages

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 07:58:41PM +0100, Luc Maisonobe wrote:
> Le 01/02/2012 11:00, Luc Maisonobe a écrit :
> > Le 01/02/2012 10:37, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> >> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 09:58:28AM +0100, Luc Maisonobe wrote:
> >>> Le 31/01/2012 12:19, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> >>>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:22:44PM +0100, Luc Maisonobe wrote:
> >>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I confirm the same freeze occurs here, also since around christmas.
> >>>>> Looking into xsessions-errors, I get different messages. The one that
> >>>>> may help you is:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> /usr/lib/xulrunner-9.0/plugin-container: symbol lookup error:
> >>>>> /usr/lib/xulrunner-9.0/plugin-container: undefined symbol:
> >>>>> XRE_InitChildProcess
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It is repeated several time. The freeze seems to occur when some scripts
> >>>>> are in the page, I also got messages saying a script on a page never ended.
> >>>>> It also seems after a freeze with several open tabs, the system
> >>>>> monitoring shows up several zombie plugin-containers processes. I was
> >>>>> not able to identify which plugin.
> >>>>
> >>>> Can you try iceweasel 10 from experimental? It may be fixed there.
> >>>
> >>> I tried to install it but after the add-ons compatibility checking
> >>> (which succeeded), it failed at startup with a popup window displaying a
> >>> message along the following lines (I translate the message from French):
> >>>
> >>>   XML analysis error: undefined entity
> >>>   Location: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
> >>>   Line number 553, column 7:
> >>>         <menuitem id="content-videa-showstats"
> >>>   ------^
> >>>
> >>> The main window never appeared after this error popup.
> >>
> >> Did you upgrade iceweasel-l10n-fr ?
> > 
> > No, I forgot to update it. Sorry for that.
> > 
> > I have now successfully installed inceweasel 10 and started to use it.
> > No hang for the first few seconds of used (I tried to open a lot of tabs
> > to stress it a little). I'll update the issue if I see some changes.
> 
> After somes tests, it seems the problem is still there with iceweasel
> 10. Running strace on a stuck browser shows the same pattern as before,
> a very long timeout on a call:
> 
> futex(0x7ff2051c608c, FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, 1,
> {1328209105, 697780000}, ffffffff

Do you still see the undefined symbol error? If so, can you try
iceweasel 11 from mozilla.debian.net (currently iceweasel-aurora, but if
you wait enough, it will be in experimental)

Mike