On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:28:08AM -0600, Brian de Alwis wrote:

> On 2007.07.26 10:33:15 -0600, Brian de Alwis wrote:
> > Were you viewing any files using an external viewer?  I've found
> > that Firefox often `hangs' when opening a second PDF using xpdf --
> > until I quit the other xpdf instance.
> 
> This pdf-viewing hang just happened to me and it appears to have
> the same symptoms of parked processes.

Is it a plugin?

>    923      5 firefox-bin gettimeofday(0xb93fff0c, 0) = 0
>    923      6 firefox-bin _lwp_park(0xb93fff04, 0, 0x8d3c58c) Err#60 ETIMEDOUT
>    923      6 firefox-bin gettimeofday(0xb91fff1c, 0) = 0
>    923      5 firefox-bin _lwp_park(0xb91fff14, 0, 0x8d3c68c) Err#60 ETIMEDOUT
>    923      5 firefox-bin gettimeofday(0xb93fff0c, 0) = 0
>    923      6 firefox-bin _lwp_park(0xb93fff04, 0, 0x8d3c58c) Err#60 ETIMEDOUT
>    923      6 firefox-bin gettimeofday(0xb91fff1c, 0) = 0
> 
> which continues repeating ad nauseum.

I believe that is a known bug (bad behaviour, really) in Firefox/Mozilla. I
don't have a reference for it, and unfortunatley there's not much we can do
about it.

> Anything else I can do to help provide more information?

I can't reproduce the issue, so what I'm really after are core files and
version information on the system and the package.

Andrew