[SOLVED] Firefox delayed startup and laggy interface

uberscientist · 2012-03-21 02:35:52

I've been having issues with Firefox 11.0 taking over 30 seconds to start, as well as slightly delayed opening of menus (File, Edit, View, etc.)

I suspect it has to do with me recently installing multi-lib/lib32 packages (which I violently removed today to see if that would fix the issue).

I ran FF with LD_DEBUG=files and it looks like there's issues for each language:

     11834:	/usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-thai-lang.so: error: symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: g_module_check_init (fatal)
     11834:	/usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-thai-lang.so: error: symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: g_module_unload (fatal)

I can pastebin the full output if that would help. Any other debugging steps I can take? I've tried to run firefox from the binary provided by getfirefox.com, but for some reason I'm getting an error:

[nak@arch firefox]$ ./firefox
bash: ./firefox: No such file or directory

I did a pacman -Syyu today after removing the multilib repos.

Thanks for any help.

edit
I think I found out why firefox wouldn't run from the site:

[nak@arch firefox]$ file firefox
firefox: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped
[nak@arch firefox]$ file firefox-bin 
firefox-bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped

Last edited by uberscientist (2012-03-23 04:56:04)

ConnorBehan · 2012-03-21 02:47:34

I'm not sure what the g_module error you're getting is but it looks like you have not been running the bin firefox correctly. Check that the ELF or script in the package you extract is really called firefox and check that it's executable.

uberscientist · 2012-03-21 03:01:04

ConnorBehan wrote:

I'm not sure what the g_module error you're getting is but it looks like you have not been running the bin firefox correctly. Check that the ELF or script in the package you extract is really called firefox and check that it's executable.

It is, and I said I figured out why in the edit: it's a 32bit executable and I just removed all the multilib/lib32 stuff from arch.
So, I just went to the nightly build page which has a 64bit build: http://nightly.mozilla.org/

And it runs, however with the same start-up lag time, and the menu lag time is even worse. Thanks for the concern though dumb mistake on my part.

uberscientist · 2012-03-22 21:08:58

Okay, update:
So I started up and found out that the xfwm wasn't being executed on startup for some reason (I haven't been able to find anything looking through logs in /var/log) and the firefox lag is completely gone, starts up in a little under 2 seconds now, and I'm able to start xfwm from a launcher on the desktop as written here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=112610

(tl;dr xfwm failure and firefox fix coincided)

And during my poking around I think the problems are being caused by installing playonlinux from the AUR or wine... I'm pretty sure the laggy firefox was being caused by my frantic attempts to get Serious Sam to work...

What's disturbing me the most is that something happened on the system that I'm not aware of

Last edited by uberscientist (2012-03-22 21:09:47)

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#1 2012-03-21 02:35:52

[SOLVED] Firefox delayed startup and laggy interface

#2 2012-03-21 02:47:34

Re: [SOLVED] Firefox delayed startup and laggy interface

#3 2012-03-21 03:01:04

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