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Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 551

[firefox] random freezes and crash since a "pacman -Syu"

I use firefox 28.0-1 package,

since a recent "pacman -Syu" I notice some serious random freezes and crash in firefox,

here are the packages updated, I suspect them to trigger a serious bug in firefox :

[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded readline (6.3-3 -> 6.3.003-2)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded bash (4.3-3 -> 4.3.008-2)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded coreutils (8.22-3 -> 8.22-4)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded ca-certificates (20140223-2 -> 20140325-1)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded cups-filters (1.0.51-1 -> 1.0.52-1)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded fftw (3.3.3-2 -> 3.3.4-1)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded nss (3.15.5-2 -> 3.16-1)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded flashplugin (11.2.202.346-1 -> 11.2.202.350-1)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded gnutls (3.2.12.1-1 -> 3.2.13-1)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded kmod (16-1 -> 17-1)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded libsystemd (212-1 -> 212-2)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded libutil-linux (2.24.1-4 -> 2.24.1-6)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded linux (3.13.8-1 -> 3.14-4)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded linux-docs (3.13.8-1 -> 3.14-4)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded linux-headers (3.13.8-1 -> 3.14-4)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded lirc-utils (1:0.9.0-70 -> 1:0.9.0-71)
[2014-04-10 02:34] [PACMAN] upgraded man-pages (3.63-1 -> 3.64-1)
[2014-04-10 02:35] [PACMAN] upgraded sdlmame (0.152.u0-1 -> 0.153.u0-1)
[2014-04-10 02:35] [PACMAN] upgraded util-linux (2.24.1-4 -> 2.24.1-6)
[2014-04-10 02:35] [PACMAN] upgraded systemd (212-1 -> 212-2)
[2014-04-10 02:35] [PACMAN] upgraded systemd-sysvcompat (212-1 -> 212-2)
[2014-04-10 02:35] [PACMAN] upgraded virtualbox-host-modules (4.3.10-1 -> 4.3.10-2)

Can anyone confirm the problem?

Last edited by Potomac (2014-04-10 18:45:15)

brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

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Re: [firefox] random freezes and crash since a "pacman -Syu"

This seems to be a rare problem in linux 3.14, see https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail … 26112.html and https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail … 26154.html.

Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 551

Re: [firefox] random freezes and crash since a "pacman -Syu"

thanks for your answer,

the problem occurs randomly, if I open a lot of tabs in firefox the bug can be trigerred after 5~10 minutes

Stemp

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From: Paris, Europe

Registered: 2011-04-26

Posts: 61

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Re: [firefox] random freezes and crash since a "pacman -Syu"

the problem occurs randomly, if I open a lot of tabs in firefox the bug can be trigerred after 5~10 minutes

I can confirm, exact same problem here. I even tried to rebuild firefox with no luck.

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Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 551

Re: [firefox] random freezes and crash since a "pacman -Syu"

one possible solution is to rebuild linux-3.14-4 with this patch :

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/8/80

digirium

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Registered: 2012-11-15

Posts: 51

Re: [firefox] random freezes and crash since a "pacman -Syu"

Posting to say "me too".

Firefox 28 on kernel 3.14.0-4 with nvidia drivers and javascript enabled.

With several tabs already open, open new tab to a random site and FF freezes becoming non-responsive.

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loafer

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Re: [firefox] random freezes and crash since a "pacman -Syu"

Until there's a fix you can do this in order to bring it back to life:

kill -SIGSTOP [pid]
kill -SIGCONT [pid]

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Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 551

Re: [firefox] random freezes and crash since a "pacman -Syu"

new patch from Linus :

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/8/497

highway

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Registered: 2012-07-28

Posts: 81

Re: [firefox] random freezes and crash since a "pacman -Syu"

new patch from Linus :

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/8/497

does stuff like this usually get rolled int oa new kernel update pretty quickly? (next day or so)

Potomac

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Registered: 2011-12-25

Posts: 551

Re: [firefox] random freezes and crash since a "pacman -Syu"

you can find kernel 3.14-5  in testing :

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/test … _64/linux/

linux 3.14-5: Fix a futex bug and add some iwlwifi fixes