Hi All
I've got this bug whereby Firefox just freezes sometimes. I can go for days without a problem then have it freeze up two or three times in one day. When it freezes I can switch to a terminal running top and see that one of the 4-5 processes called Firefox is in a state of STOP. I can kill the other Firefox processes but I cannot kill the one in the STOP state. If I just walk away the last process will eventually terminate itself but it can take as much as five minutes. I need to find a way to kill this off faster so I can restart Firefox and continue working.
I've reloaded Firefox and upgraded it twice, I've also made sure my system is all up to date but the bug continues. I'm past trying to stop it, now I just want to minimize it's effect by finding a way to kill and restart as quickly as possible.
If I kill all the other Firefox processes I can sometimes restart Firefox and it will tell me bookmarks are unavailable. That gives a bit of a clue that it may be tied to the sqlite that accesses the bookmarks database but I'm not 100% sure.
I'm looking for suggestions on tools, commands etc that will help me trace from the "STOP"ed process to whatever it's waiting for, is there some way to find what it is associated with or connected to a process listed in top?
I've got this bug whereby Firefox just freezes sometimes. I can go for days without a problem then have it freeze up two or three times in one day. When it freezes I can switch to a terminal running top and see that one of the 4-5 processes called Firefox is in a state of STOP. I can kill the other Firefox processes but I cannot kill the one in the STOP state. If I just walk away the last process will eventually terminate itself but it can take as much as five minutes. I need to find a way to kill this off faster so I can restart Firefox and continue working.
I've reloaded Firefox and upgraded it twice, I've also made sure my system is all up to date but the bug continues. I'm past trying to stop it, now I just want to minimize it's effect by finding a way to kill and restart as quickly as possible.
If I kill all the other Firefox processes I can sometimes restart Firefox and it will tell me bookmarks are unavailable. That gives a bit of a clue that it may be tied to the sqlite that accesses the bookmarks database but I'm not 100% sure.
I'm looking for suggestions on tools, commands etc that will help me trace from the "STOP"ed process to whatever it's waiting for, is there some way to find what it is associated with or connected to a process listed in top?