GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 72196
Galeon hangs on some web sites rather consistently
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Hi. Galeon seems to hang on some Web sites consistently. Off the top of my head I can mention http://www.sinfest.net as an example page, don't really remember others, sorry. When straced, Galeon seems to hang at a select() call, however, mouse movement around the window still generated new calls. The user interface was frozen solid, however. I don't have plugins except for an OJI plugin from j2sdk1.3.1. Java isn't even enabled, though.
Icant reproduce this although i read quite a few strips :)
Created attachment 6827 [details] Strace of Galeon crashing, comments marked with ***
Well, added a strace in case that clears something up for somebody. Also, appears that my usual Galeon session of 12 sites is crashing it as well, I'll send the address if I can isolate the culprit. (Sinfest's earlier comics are better than most of the new stuff, btw ;)
I cant really make much of the strace. What would be more usefull is a stacktrace of the crash, you can get on if running galeon under gdb
Well, as said in before, it doesn't exactly crash, but just stops at a select() call while leaving the UI completely unresponsive.
Hmm... Further testing seems to indicate that using dual head X with Xinerama triggers the behaviour, or at least I wasn't able to reproduce it without Xinerama in use. So, it seems that this could be an XFree86 bug. (Using Debian Sid's xserver-xfree86-4.1.0-14) - at least I can't think of anything that Galeon could have to do with it. Apologies for the inconvenience (and thanks for a great browser, which hopefully continues to work properly as I've disabled Xinerama at least for the time being).
Lets hope its fixed elsewhere Thanks for folowing up