Date: 04 Apr 2003 07:47:28 -0500 From: Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: *WARNING* Mozilla v1.3,2 installation causes total system lockup Message-ID: <1049460448.425.40.camel@jake>
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*PLEASE READ THIS MESSAGE BEFORE UPDATING MOZILLA * Last night I removed Mozilla 1.2.x and Mozilla 1.3b, in favour of the new Mozilla 1.3,2. I knew the compile would take a while, so I started it right before I went to sleep. This morning I came back and my computer was completely frozen. The Mozilla installation had apparently almost finished, but somehow gone into an infinite loop and somehow took every available drop of system resources until ALL other applications crashed. I could not access the box locally (even by pushing CTRL+ALT+F2 to bring up another local session). I tried SSH'ing in from my other computer, but OpenSSHd had crashed as well. So, the only thing I could do was just hard restart the computer, which I cringe just at the thought of. I checked my /var/log/messages just now, and my theory about what happened last night has somewhat been confirmed: *** Apr 4 03:57:31 jake /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Apr 4 03:57:31 jake /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Apr 4 03:57:31 jake /kernel: pid 445 (XFree86), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space Apr 4 03:57:51 jake /kernel: pid 450 (fluxbox), uid 1001: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) Apr 4 03:58:57 jake /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Apr 4 03:58:58 jake last message repeated 135 times Apr 4 03:58:58 jake /kernel: pid 331 (squid), uid 85, was killed: out of swap space Apr 4 03:58:58 jake squid[329]: Squid Parent: child process 331 exited due to signal 9 Apr 4 03:59:11 jake /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Apr 4 03:59:11 jake last message repeated 71 times Apr 4 03:59:11 jake /kernel: pid 501 (oafd), uid 1001, was killed: out of swap space ... the list goes on and on for every running process. *** The last thing that was on the screen was something like the following: 1) Linking the Java module 2) Failure to load Java module 3) Registering Mozilla package 4) Security warning that Mozilla installed modules that might act as a network server, etc. The display was still showing that security warning when I got here this morning, and apparently had been in that spot for 3+ hours. It *is* technically possible that this happened due to another process, but I find that theory highly unlikely. I was not running anything out of the ordinary. Everything that was running on my computer has been the same set of applications that I've been using for at least a year. This computer has NO history of any hardware failures. In fact, the hardware in this machine was meticulously assembled about a year ago specifically for usage in FreeBSD. The only reasonable theory is that the Mozilla installer somehow went into an infinite loop, something similar to a fork bomb. Here's a list of some of my actions yesterday leading up to upgrading my Mozilla. - Uninstalled plugger - Uninstalled acroread - Uninstalled gv - Uninstalled Netscape - Uninstalled galeon - Uninstalled mozilla-headers - Uninstalled mozilla - Uninstalled mozilla-devel - Installed mozilla v1.3,2 from ports I hope this email keeps other people from experiencing the same problem, and helps to get it resolved as quickly as possible. This computer is running on an Athlon 1.5GHz with 512mb DDR RAM and 1024mb swap space. I am currently running FreeBSD v4.7. -- Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net>
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