Firefox and gmail troubles

[Jon LaBadie]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:59:44AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> 
> Keep in mind the baremetal system that it consistently happens on, has
> a VM running in which it does not happen.
> 
> The other manifestations are google searches and account switches
> hanging. For search, I usually use the URL field to do the search and
> then hit return. The typical result is nearly instant but no results
> are displayed, just the google search bar and under that the
> qualifiers All Video News Maps Imaging Shopping, and then white space
> where there should be search results but there are none. I click
> reload icon on the right side of the URL field but instead of
> reloading, the URL field is replaced by gray "Search or Enter Address"
> as if nothing had previously been entered or loaded. If I try again
> using the exact same steps, it works normally. It's a total crap
> shoot.
> 

Putting on my Way-back-hat, that sounds like what I used to
see when multiple processes were trying to read from stdin
at the same time.

For me it happened most often on Solaris when X would crash
and the display manager would not restart.  There might be
a shell process and a terminal login process, or two login
processes competing for the tty input.

Jon
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Jon H. LaBadie                  jonfu at jgcomp.com