Re: [Plash] Firefox now hangs

[Thomas Leonard]

On 5/5/06, Mark Seaborn <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thomas Leonard <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I've been running firefox under plash for a while, using this script
[...]
> > Any idea how to debug this?
>
> It looks like it is opening what it expects to be a file but getting a
> directory.  Plash replaces directory FDs with dummy /dev/null FDs, and
> then intercepts fstat() and fchdir().  But it doesn't intercept read()
> or mmap(), so these will succeed where they failed before.
>
> Try passing "--log" to pola-run, and it will log the requests it gets.

That's a handy option. It's missing from the man-page...

Using --log gives:

FILE: /usr/share/fonts/fonts.cache-1, read, #1, op#1428
#1: stat: /usr/share/fonts/fonts.cache-1: ok
FILE: /usr/share/fonts, read, #1, op#1429
#1: dirlist: /usr/share/fonts: ok
FILE: /usr/share/fonts/adobe-urw.font, read, #1, op#1430
#1: open: flags=0o0, mode=0o0, /usr/share/fonts/adobe-urw.font: ok
FILE: /usr/share/fonts/._adobe-urw.font, read, #1, op#1431
#1: open: flags=0o0, mode=0o0, /usr/share/fonts/._adobe-urw.font:
fail: No such file or directory
FILE: /usr/share/fonts/%adobe-urw.font, read, #1, op#1432
#1: open: flags=0o0, mode=0o0, /usr/share/fonts/%adobe-urw.font: fail:
No such file or directory
FILE: /usr/share/fonts/.AppleDouble/adobe-urw.font, read, #1, op#1433
#1: open: flags=0o0, mode=0o0,
/usr/share/fonts/.AppleDouble/adobe-urw.font: fail: No such file or
directory
FILE: /usr/share/fonts/adobe-urw.font/rsrc, read, #1, op#1434
#1: open: flags=0o0, mode=0o0, /usr/share/fonts/adobe-urw.font/rsrc:
fail: Not a directory
FILE: /usr/share/fonts/resource.frk/adobe-urw.font, read, #1, op#1435
#1: open: flags=0o0, mode=0o0,
/usr/share/fonts/resource.frk/adobe-urw.font: fail: No such file or
directory
FILE: /usr/share/fonts/.resource/adobe-urw.font, read, #1, op#1436
#1: open: flags=0o0, mode=0o0,
/usr/share/fonts/.resource/adobe-urw.font: fail: No such file or
directory
FILE: /usr/share/fonts/adobe-urw.font, read, #1, op#1437
#1: stat: /usr/share/fonts/adobe-urw.font: ok
FILE: /usr/share/fonts/type1, read, #1, op#1438
plash: warning: using open() on a directory, `/usr/share/fonts/type1',
is not fully supported
#1: open: flags=0o0, mode=0o0, /usr/share/fonts/type1: got dir, use dummy FD
#1: dir_fstat: ok

It hangs there. This is with firefox 1.5.0.3.

Thanks,


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