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[rederon <rederon@xxxxxxx>]

Right.
In fact the behaviour is not exactly the same as before.

Yesterday before ugrading to 3.6.24, I killed the firefox-bin process.
And I did not seen the problem. In fact, I just tested several time 
opening and closing firefox and I did not noticed the issue.

But this morning at the first restart of my computer, I noticed the 
problem again with 3.6.24.
Thus I killed the firefox-bin task like before.
And since, it works sometimes... depending on the _delay between opening 
and closing firefox_.

I checked the ressources monitor during the tests.
It seems that during the _first 10 seconds after opening firefox_, it is 
possible to close it without any issues.
I mean: It's possible to open and close again and again without seeing 
the bad popup.

On the ressource monitor window, the value within "waiting channel" 
column belonging to firefox-bin process is set to "0" during 
approximately the first 10 seconds.
And as far as the value is 0, it works.

But after this delay, the value is set to "poll_schedule_timeout".
Then, if I close firefox, the firefox-bin process still remains, but 
this time with waiting channel set to "futex_wait_queue_me".

And after that, it's not possible to open again firefox without killing 
this process.

Maybe this behaviour was exactly the same with 3.6.23, but I did not 
noticed it.
Perhaps some persons still with version 3.6.23 could confim.

However, it seems the issue is linked to a dynamic behaviour of a 
timeout, and maybe the waiting channel is a track.


Le 11/11/2011 19:21, Igor Malner a écrit :
> updated to 3.6.24, still nothing!
>

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Title:
  [Firefox 3.6.23] Impossible to open firefox because firefox-bin
  process is still running

Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “firefox” source package in Lucid:
  Triaged
Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” source package in Lucid:
  Triaged
Status in “firefox” source package in Maverick:
  Triaged
Status in “flashplugin-nonfree” source package in Maverick:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  After upgrading firefox to version 3.6.23 few days ago, firefox does
  not work properly.

  At firt use after computer starting, firefox works well.
  It is possible to close firefox without any issue.
  But at second starting, firefox indicates it is impossible to launch firefox because firefox-bin process is still running.
  The workaround is to restart the computer, or simply kill the firefox-bin process.

  This behaviour happened right after upgrading firefox to version
  3.6.23, and is systematic with the profil user I use (it's an admin
  user).

  I tested with another profil (non admin) on the computer: The problem
  has not been reproduced.

  System is 10.04 LTS (kernel 2.6.32-33 generic)

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