Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else seeing any problems?
BTW, running the recent Java console from sun that was detailed in another thread a week or two back with Firefox. Had NP prior to the latest update, if that offers any useful info. Would like to test the openjdk for us if it's applicable to 4.x. If not, I can still test it on the 5.x machine.
# uname -a Linux centos01.homegroannetworking 2.6.9-67.0.7.EL #1 Sat Mar 15 06:19:12 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
From rpm -qa --last:
krb5-workstation-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1 Thu Mar 27 14:14:55 2008 krb5-devel-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1 Thu Mar 27 14:14:51 2008 krb5-server-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1 Thu Mar 27 14:14:49 2008 firefox-1.5.0.12-0.14.el4.centos Thu Mar 27 14:14:39 2008 krb5-libs-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1 Thu Mar 27 14:14:16 2008 jre-1.6.0_05-fcs Mon Mar 17 09:13:36 2008 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL Sun Mar 16 06:02:20 2008 kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL Sun Mar 16 06:01:42 2008 kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL Sun Mar 16 06:01:35 2008 kernel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL Sun Mar 16 06:01:21 2008 kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL Sun Mar 16 06:00:00 2008
From the messages log: (sorry about the wrapping)
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: Modules linked in: loop vfat fat radeon md5 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 i2c_dev i2c_core sunrpc ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables dm_multipath button battery ac sd_mod usb_storage scsi_mod uhci_hcd ehci_hcd snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore 8139too mii floppy dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror ext3 jbd dm_mod Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: CPU: 0 Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: EIP: 0060:[<0028f705>] Not tainted VLI Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.9-67.0.4.EL) Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: EIP is at 0x28f705 Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: eax: f4360de0 ebx: f4360de0 ecx: 0028f705 edx: e0125fa0 Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: esi: 00000145 edi: f634ce00 ebp: 00000003 esp: e0125f48 Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: Process firefox-bin (pid: 21366, threadinfo=e0125000 task=f4499870) Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: Stack: c0182962 e0125f6c 00000009 f634cde0 00000003 e0125fa0 f634cde0 c01829e5 Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: e0125f70 e0125fa0 00000000 00000000 f634cde0 0c0e5958 00000009 c0182c09 Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: 00000003 00000bb7 f634cde0 f634cde0 00000000 fffffff4 c018201d cd499000 Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: Call Trace: Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: [<c0182962>] do_pollfd+0x47/0x81 Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: [<c01829e5>] do_poll+0x49/0xab Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: [<c0182c09>] sys_poll+0x1c2/0x279 Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: [<c018201d>] __pollwait+0x0/0x94 Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: [<c01291d1>] sys_gettimeofday +0x53/0xac Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: [<c031d8eb>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: Code: Bad EIP value. Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: <0>Fatal exception: panic in 5 seconds
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 19:34 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else seeing any problems?
BTW, running the recent Java console from sun that was detailed in another thread a week or two back with Firefox. Had NP prior to the latest update, if that offers any useful info. Would like to test the openjdk for us if it's applicable to 4.x. If not, I can still test it on the 5.x machine.
# uname -a Linux centos01.homegroannetworking 2.6.9-67.0.7.EL #1 Sat Mar 15 06:19:12 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
From rpm -qa --last:
krb5-workstation-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1 Thu Mar 27 14:14:55 2008 krb5-devel-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1 Thu Mar 27 14:14:51 2008 krb5-server-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1 Thu Mar 27 14:14:49 2008 firefox-1.5.0.12-0.14.el4.centos Thu Mar 27 14:14:39 2008 krb5-libs-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1 Thu Mar 27 14:14:16 2008 jre-1.6.0_05-fcs Mon Mar 17 09:13:36 2008 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL Sun Mar 16 06:02:20 2008 kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL Sun Mar 16 06:01:42 2008 kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL Sun Mar 16 06:01:35 2008 kernel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL Sun Mar 16 06:01:21 2008 kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL Sun Mar 16 06:00:00 2008
From the messages log: (sorry about the wrapping)
Mar 30 14:53:40 centos01 kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
NB: Maybe this is related?
http://www.redhat.com/security/data/oval/com.redhat.rhsa-2008.xml
The google "header" is
Red Hat OVAL Patch Definition Merger 2 5.3 2008-03-27T19:20:03 ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, ..... a general fault protection, a NULL pointer dereference, ...
This seems to indicate a 3/27 update.
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On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:34 PM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else seeing any problems?
I've had FF running on my CentOS 4 desktop for a little over 2 days now, continuously, with no problems. However, I *don't* have the JRE package installed, and I use the centosplus kernel.
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 17:09 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:34 PM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else seeing any problems?
I've had FF running on my CentOS 4 desktop for a little over 2 days now, continuously, with no problems. However, I *don't* have the JRE package installed, and I use the centosplus kernel.
I've dropped back to the previous kernel to see if that makes a difference, based on what I saw in the google results I mentioned in my second post. IIRC, with the previous kernel *and* prev FF, I'd had some issues, but never a panic. I'd been looking forward to a new FF, thinking that would fix things. Symptoms were a "slow freeze" when I had lots of things running on a Gnome desktop (two sets of mail, FF, gnome terminal for two users - 1 native via login, the other "su -" invoked, multiple tabs in FF and terminal, and several OO spreadsheets). Doing a C&P operation would sometimes result in severe lack of responsiveness from that point on. Might take a half hour until I could even kill things and start anew.
Various diags would show no swap use, nothing odd about memory usage, etc. But repainting the workspaces would take a *long* time.
Maybe all this was a sign of that bug in a larval stage.
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