Re: Netscape broken with 2.2.0-pre7

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 11:10:10 +0000


> So tell us what /proc/$(pidof netscape)/fd/18 points at.

A pipe:[1043]. No other process has -> pipe:[1043] in it's descriptor
list (not even the child process of netscape-navigator, which is also
called netscape-navigator).

lr-x------ 1 jamie jamie 64 Jan 16 11:06 /proc/1029/fd/17 -> pipe:
[1043]
l-wx------ 1 jamie jamie 64 Jan 16 11:06 /proc/1029/fd/18 -> pipe:
[1043]

-- Jamie

> > Yep, something real weird going on. Here's one with netscape. It
> > locks up netscape 4.07 every time; I can't read slashdot ;-)
> >
> > Netscape gets into this loop, for no apparent reason. The signals are
> > coming at high speed, and netscape isn't responding to anything else:
> >
> > write(18, "\372", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
> > --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
> > gettimeofday({916445765, 85701}, NULL) = 0
> > sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
> > write(18, "\372", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
> > --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
> > gettimeofday({916445765, 136834}, NULL) = 0
> > sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
> > write(18, "\372", 1) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
> > --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) ---
> > gettimeofday({916445765, 185730}, NULL) = 0
> > sigreturn() = ? (mask now [])
>
>
> Tim.
> */

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