Bug 139611

Summary:	gamin mystery
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Ladislav Michnovic <lmichnovic>
Component:	Firefox	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	sbrabec
Version:	RC 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	gamin core dump

Description Ladislav Michnovic 2005-12-16 16:14:56 UTC

Sometimes happens, that my Firefox stops resolving urls. Restart of the application helpes but it hangs up (window dissapeared). I have to kill it amnualy and I see a strange proces belonging to gamin is pressent. So I suspecting gamin. 
I'm attaching core of gamin.

Comment 1 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-12-16 16:15:44 UTC

Created attachment 61088 [details]
gamin core dump

Comment 2 Robert Love 2005-12-16 17:58:47 UTC

Not following why you are blaming gamin?

Comment 3 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-12-16 18:28:05 UTC

Just suspecting. You can check out the core.

Comment 4 Robert Love 2005-12-16 18:39:13 UTC

Firefox links to neither FAM nor Gamin ...

Comment 5 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-12-16 19:18:45 UTC

It was a first idea. Maybe I'm totally wrong with the gamin. Any idea what can cause such behavior of Firefox?

Comment 6 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-12-16 19:27:19 UTC

Firefox is using gconf which is using fam/gamin somehow. I have no other idea at the moment and maybe it's unrelated.

Comment 7 JP Rosevear 2005-12-19 15:07:49 UTC

Firefox uses gnome-vfs which uses gamin if available.

Comment 8 JP Rosevear 2006-02-16 04:53:34 UTC

Now that I think about it, I suspect gnome-vfs2 actually implicitly requires fam or gamin, but not explicitly.  This will be fixed as part of bug 128037.

Stanislav, should we update gnome-vfs2 with a dep for SL 10.0?

Comment 9 Stanislav Brabec 2006-02-16 13:25:22 UTC

It is correct - it needs virtual file_alteration instead. We have had a bug 120314 about broken dependency chain (fixed by 10.0 YOU).

There are more gamin problems reports in Bugzilla.

I don't know, how gamin works with NFS home. Try to start fam daemon and try again. Wrapper should switch to fam for all launched applications.

Comment 10 Dan Winship 2006-02-24 19:06:32 UTC

As Robert said in comment #2, it's not at all clear why gamin is getting
blamed here. At any rate, gnome-vfs should no longer depend on gamin in any
way in Beta5, so if the bug goes away, then I guess it was gamin's fault and
you can close this, and if the bug doesn't go away, then it's a Firefox bug.

Comment 11 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2006-08-17 20:15:57 UTC

Closing because of lack of information.
Please reopen if the problem still occurs.