Re: Firefox does not start (at least without significant lag) sometimes after crashing

[Z Ero]

$ firefox &
[2] 24794
$ top
$ ps
  PID TT  STAT   TIME COMMAND
16819 p1  Z   0:00.00 (firefox)
61237 p1  Z   0:00.00 (firefox)
32024 p1  Ssp 0:00.01 ksh
 8876 p1  I   0:00.19 firefox
24794 p1  S   0:04.79 firefox
  373 p1  R+p/0   0:00.00 ps
$ kill -9 16819
$ ps
  PID TT  STAT   TIME COMMAND
61237 p1  Z   0:00.00 (firefox)
32024 p1  Ssp 0:00.01 ksh
24794 p1  I   0:04.79 firefox
28606 p1  R+p/1   0:00.00 ps
[1] - Done firefox
$ kill -9 61237
$ ps
  PID TT  STAT   TIME COMMAND
61237 p1  Z   0:00.00 (firefox)
32024 p1  Ssp 0:00.01 ksh
24794 p1  I   0:04.79 firefox
91733 p1  R+p/1   0:00.00 ps
$ kill -9 61237
ksh: kill: 61237: No such process
$ ps
  PID TT  STAT   TIME COMMAND
32024 p1  Ssp 0:00.01 ksh
24794 p1  D   0:06.13 firefox
17741 p1  S   0:00.00 dbus-launch
--autolaunch=d3a4785d28139dbad41abb225a91d3af --binary-syntax
--close-stderr
46916 p1  R+p/0   0:00.00 ps

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 10:58 PM, Z Ero  wrote:
> 6.2 AMD64, firefox 58.
>
> If firefox crashes (which happens rarely) sometimes I find it does not
> start back up again. It seems to become a zombie or something. It
> starts then goes directly to suspend. Why? Any work around known?
>
> I suspect it has something to do with dbus waiting for something or
> firefox waiting for something from dbus.
>
> I have found killing my multiple attempts at starting firefox
> eventually produces a dialogue window saying "firefox is already
> running but not responding." Well... Then when I kill the process that
> started the dialogue window it firefox finally starts.
>
> But this behaviour is strange and the solution would not be intuitive
> to many less technical users (e.g. if one was using OpenBSD + Firefox
> as a platform for a thinclient / web browser + think client based
> application). Maybe firefox eventually starts on its own (after 5
> minutes) but I have never had the patience to wait around to try
> that...in any case that would be unacceptable for a general user.
>
> Does any one else experience this?
>
> Is there any solution / work around?
>
> Thanks.

Firefox does not start (at least without significant lag) sometimes after crashing

[Z Ero]

6.2 AMD64, firefox 58.

If firefox crashes (which happens rarely) sometimes I find it does not
start back up again. It seems to become a zombie or something. It
starts then goes directly to suspend. Why? Any work around known?

I suspect it has something to do with dbus waiting for something or
firefox waiting for something from dbus.

I have found killing my multiple attempts at starting firefox
eventually produces a dialogue window saying "firefox is already
running but not responding." Well... Then when I kill the process that
started the dialogue window it firefox finally starts.

But this behaviour is strange and the solution would not be intuitive
to many less technical users (e.g. if one was using OpenBSD + Firefox
as a platform for a thinclient / web browser + think client based
application). Maybe firefox eventually starts on its own (after 5
minutes) but I have never had the patience to wait around to try
that...in any case that would be unacceptable for a general user.

Does any one else experience this?

Is there any solution / work around?

Thanks.