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

[Christian von Kietzell]

On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 20:47 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> I can't reproduce it here. Links open flawlessly.
> 
> > I haven't been able to track down exactly where this is coming from :-/
> 
> Getting a backtrace would help a lot.

Ok, now this is strange. The bug is/was gone.

I reinstalled my whole system (not because of this bug), afterwards the
bug was gone. Then I configured everything the way I always do and there
it was again. I removed ~/.gnome2/epiphany again, and restarted it. The
only thing I configured differently this time was the
network.cookie.lifetimePolicy setting in about:config (Epiphany lacks an
option for asking everytime).

For a while it worked normally. Now, to test this case, I set the cookie
setting to 1 again. And sure enough, Epiphany behaves strangely. I
started it in gdb and for some websites it seems to hang. And even after
closing it at least three threads seem to be hanging:

[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1508194624 (LWP 22575)]
[New Thread -1513583696 (LWP 22580)]
[New Thread -1523254352 (LWP 22581)]
[New Thread -1531642960 (LWP 22582)]
[New Thread -1540031568 (LWP 22583)]
[New Thread -1548420176 (LWP 22584)]
[New Thread -1556808784 (LWP 22585)]
[New Thread -1566831696 (LWP 22589)]
[New Thread -1575220304 (LWP 22590)]
[Thread -1566831696 (LWP 22589) exited]
[Thread -1548420176 (LWP 22584) exited]
[Thread -1556808784 (LWP 22585) exited]
[Thread -1540031568 (LWP 22583) exited]
[Thread -1531642960 (LWP 22582) exited]
[Thread -1575220304 (LWP 22590) exited]

I don't see any processes with pids 22580 and 22581 in ps' output
though, only 22575 is left. Even after killing the remaining process and
restarting Epiphany those particular sites won't be loaded. The
particular site I'm trying to load has already set a cookie when the
setting was still disabled.

What helps is setting network.cookie.lifetimePolicy to 0 again.
I haven't got a clue what's going on but maybe someone else is able to
figure it out now.
Like always I'd be happy to help.

  Chris