<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Ed Greshko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ed.greshko@greshko.com" target="_blank">ed.greshko@greshko.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>On 03/30/14 21:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote:<br>
> sorry for being unclear, yes, they're firefox, just two other<br>
> invocations.<br>
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</div>Oh, OK....<br>
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So, you've established that other browsers don't have the problem. Yes?<br>
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Have you considered creating a new user and trying that way?<br>
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</div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>OK. Just to set the testing environment, I'm running:<br><br> [root@tlondon ~]# rpm -q firefox xulrunner<br>firefox-28.0-3.fc21.x86_64<br>package xulrunner is not installed<br>
[root@tlondon ~]# <br><br></div><div>and<br><br>[root@tlondon ~]# uname -r<br>3.14.0-0.rc8.git1.1.fc21.x86_64<br>[root@tlondon ~]# <br><br></div></div>So a "debug" kernel, -28 firefox and no xulrunner.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">I noticed journal spew for 3 shared objects:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>Mar 30 07:44:26 <a href="http://tlondon.localhost.org" target="_blank">tlondon.localhost.org</a> firefox.desktop[2704]: /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container: error while loading shared libraries: libxul.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<br>
<br clear="all">Mar 30 07:47:12 <a href="http://tlondon.localhost.org" target="_blank">tlondon.localhost.org</a> firefox.desktop[2704]: /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container: error while loading shared libraries: libmozalloc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<br>
<br>Mar 30 07:49:12 <a href="http://tlondon.localhost.org" target="_blank">tlondon.localhost.org</a> firefox.desktop[2858]: /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">On my system, versions of these files all reside in /usr/lib64/firefox/.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So, guessing somehow the dynamic load path was not set quite right (especially after removing xulrunner?), I manually created symbolic links for these in /usr/lib64:<br>
<br>[root@tlondon lib64]# ln -s /usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so /usr/lib64/libxul.so<br>[root@tlondon lib64]#<br>[root@tlondon lib64]# ln -s /usr/lib64/firefox/libmozalloc.so /usr/lib64/libmozalloc.so<br>[root@tlondon lib64]#<br>
[root@tlondon lib64]# ln -s /usr/lib64/firefox/libmozjs.so /usr/lib64/libmozjs.so<br>[root@tlondon lib64]# <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">[root@tlondon ~]# ls -lt /usr/lib64 | head -4<br>total 926628<br>lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 30 Mar 30 07:51 libmozjs.so -> /usr/lib64/firefox/libmozjs.so<br>
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 33 Mar 30 07:49 libmozalloc.so -> /usr/lib64/firefox/libmozalloc.so<br>lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 28 Mar 30 07:46 libxul.so -> /usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so<br>[root@tlondon ~]# <br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I no longer see the journal spew and firefox no longer seems to freeze on pages with flash plugins (?).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">YMMW...<br><br>tom<br>-- <br>Tom London
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