Pinwheel Of Death

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Stu Mark - 25 Aug 2005 01:57 GMT

Firefox was pretty stable lately. Then I upgraded to 1.0.6 and suddenly I'm
getting the pinwheel of death quite frequently. I don't think my surfing
habits have suddenly changed. Is there a way to troubleshoot this? How
about tossing prefs? I don't want to lose all my auto-fill terms (although
I don't know where they are stored) but this crashing is getting irritating.

Thanks for any suggestions,

Stu
(who believes in the power of the parenthetical expression)

NP: Scotch by Mike Keneally

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Mr. Uh Clem - 25 Aug 2005 15:01 GMT

> Firefox was pretty stable lately. Then I upgraded to 1.0.6 and suddenly I'm
> getting the pinwheel of death quite frequently. I don't think my surfing
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>
> NP: Scotch by Mike Keneally

FWIW, when Moz has hung (typically in newsgroups, not web),
I've taken to opening a terminal window, finding the Moz
process id using ps -U<userid> and then sending an abort
signal to that process: kill -s SIGABRT <pid> . This forces
a core dump and invokes the Talkback agent. Hopefully, the
information will be useful to the developers in figuring out
why the program hung. Make sure to note that you forced the
abort and under what circumstances.

Hmm, when I retried this procedure this AM on a non-hung Moz,
it got stuck in the POD after Talkback fired off and had to
be Force Quit instead of going away. Perhaps it has something
to do with selecting Don't Send in Talkback...

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Pinwheel Of Death