Bug#357904: epiphany-browser: strange hangs all the time

[Josselin Mouette]

First of all, are you still experiencing these issues with the latest
xulrunner and epiphany packages from unstable? They should have improved
a lot.

Le jeudi 30 mars 2006 à 15:50 +0200, Christian a écrit :
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:18:42AM +0200 Josselin Mouette said:
> > Indeed, it doesn't look easily reproducible. First of all, are you using
> > any particular plugins?
> 
> I've tried with and without epiphany-extensions installed. Also, at
> first I thought it was some Javascript related bug, but disabling it
> doesn't help.

How about Flash, Java, or the like?

> > The symptoms you describe could be caused by a hanging thread. Getting
> > several backtraces of all threads when this behaviour occurs and seeing
> > which threads don't act at all would be a way to detect where this is
> > happening.
> 
> Can you tell me how to do that? I mean, I have basic knowledge of GDB
> but I've never had to debug threaded applications. On the other hand,
> this looks like a good opportunity to learn something ;-)
> I'll try and see what I can find out and let you know.

http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace
You don't need to rebuild the package with debugging symbols right now,
we'll first see where the hangs come from.
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