[Bug 848883] New: Firefox and Thunderbird not responding after initial window, dolphin and others very, very slow
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848883 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848883#c0 Summary: Firefox and Thunderbird not responding after initial window, dolphin and others very, very slow Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 13.1 Version: RC 2 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SUSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Firefox AssignedTo: bnc-team-mozilla@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: j.reitsma@hccnet.nl QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 After a fresh install of RC1, and also after upgrading RC1 to RC2, firefox and thunderbird are not working. Both show (process:4432): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed when started from the command line. There are several posts (also very recent ones) on the Firefox Bugzilla about this error message for FF and TB. None on opensuse. There, it is suggested that starting with the environment variable G_SLICE=always-malloc is a work around, but that doesn't work in my case. Behaviour: After first start of FF, the FF-window appears, with the entries on the main menu, but without the corresponding icons. Starting it a second - or third, fourth etc.) the icons appear also, and a subwindow which lists the sessions that could not be opened (which is all sessions). No input is taken from mouse or keyboard, and also closing the window does not work (until KDE kicks in and let the user stop FF or TB). Also - but maybe not related - some applications are very, very slow starting up. For example to start dolphin it takes 75 secs. To restart or shutdown from the KDE menu it takes 2 minutes for the little stop-menu to appear, and another 75 secs before the real shutdown is started after choosing restart or shutdown. Shutdown as root from a terminal has it's normal speed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848883 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848883#c1 Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |wolfgang@rosenauer.org --- Comment #1 from Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@rosenauer.org> 2013-11-09 12:46:58 UTC --- I'm not sure if this behaviour has anything to do with the warning message you get. I'm actually pretty sure it hasn't since I get the same warning but Firefox and Thunderbird is working absolutely fine here. So the hard task is to find what is special on your system. I haven't seen another single report about such problems yet. Maybe related is the behaviour of your other apps but I have no idea about for example Dolphin. So I understand your system is pretty much unusable but it's not limited to Firefox or Thunderbird. Have you tried other desktops, window managers or anything else? Anything which would help us to get an idea what's wrong with your system? It it under high cpu load, when you start dolphin for example, or high io load? I doubt Firefox is the right component here but up to now I have no clue which component it could be unless you do more experiments. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848883 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848883#c2 Robert Glenn <BobGlenn@outlook.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |BobGlenn@outlook.com --- Comment #2 from Robert Glenn <BobGlenn@outlook.com> 2013-11-26 17:21:57 UTC --- I am having exactly the same problem with firefox and Konqueror, both freeze at their initial window. Software updating is seemingly unaffected, so internet connection is working. Running firefox in Konsole produces the error message, but Konqueror just hangs. Fresh install of openSuse 13.1 dual boot with Ubuntu 13.10 which has no problems with firefox. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848883 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848883#c3 --- Comment #3 from Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma@hccnet.nl> 2013-11-26 20:02:54 UTC --- After a discussion on the factory-mailing list (topic "opensuse-factory] Thunderbird and Firefox not working, Dolphin and stopping via KDE-menu very slow") I have done several steps in order to tackle the problem. - disabled nepomuk --- no result - started the fresh install anew, now with only all needed for KDE - no result - checked the disk for bad blocks - nothing was found - repartitioned and reformatted the whole disk, now including the /home partition, and installed anew - no result - changed the kde-theme to something else than oxygen-gtk - no result So I decided to install 12.3, and bring it up to the latest update. That system works flawlessly. Then i upgraded this 12.3 to 13.1, and now the problems were gone... Thereupon I decided to venture the update of my " production" system (same PC, other disk setup, with a Samsung SSD an boot- and root disk, and a 4-disk, 3TB software raid-5. This is a partial luck: Thunderbird and Firefox run OK (be it that Firefox sometimes won't do a download, that it will do some other time...). But: - dolphin takes more than a minute to start, from than on reacts normally - the 'leave' -options take almost two minutes to pop up - sound is working in Yast, not in kde (window ' Geluidsinstellingen' ('Sound configuration') in kmix takes several minutes to appear, shows some hardware items. but gives no test sound at either of them - vlc, when started from command line, gives it's name and version, stays alive as a process, (and cannot be stopped even with kill -9 as root) but gives no opening window - kdenlive, when started from command line, complains about missing libDeckLinkAPI.so, then says "QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver", and stays mutt. gkrellm works, so I can see there' s no disk/CPU activity while waiting. /var/log/messages gives no errors or warnings related to this. All in all, an unsatisfactory situation, and I don' t know where to look... Something in 13.1 is wrong, that's for sure. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848883 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848883#c4 David Walker <dhwprof@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dhwprof@gmail.com --- Comment #4 from David Walker <dhwprof@gmail.com> 2013-12-06 00:58:41 UTC --- I think I've been experiencing a mild version of this. Firefox works, but is noticeably sluggish to the extent of slowing other applications. Setting G_SLICE=always-malloc seems to fix the problem. I'm running 13.1, upgraded from 12.3, under Gnome. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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