Firefox doesn't close

[Marc Randolph]

Running firefox under gdb might give you an idea (or not ;-).  strace
might be worth a try as well.

    Marc

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Dan Healy <dfhealy at gmail.com> wrote:
> No, it doesn't happen every time.  I have not been able to make it fail.  I
> am doing a lot of localhost with JavaScript, php, and MySQL.  Any ideas on
> how to run down what is hanging?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Healy
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Brandon Tomlinson <thebwt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Does this happen every time? My gut tells me that something like flash
>> or java is likely hanging on close.
>>
>> perhaps related to
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/614961
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Dan Healy <dfhealy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I have been using Firefox with several tabs active.  I close all of the
>> > tabs
>> > and close Firefox.  When I try to restart Firefox I get the following
>> > message:
>> >
>> > Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window,
>> > you
>> > must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
>> >
>> > I go to System/Administration/System Monitor and I find the following
>> > entry:
>> >
>> > Process Name  Status     % CPU   Nice   ID      Memory      Waiting
>> > Channel
>> >
>> > firefox-bin         Sleeping           0        0   3391   39.4 MiB
>> > futex_wait_que_me
>> >
>> > Even before I click OK on the Firefox is already ... message a new
>> > firefox-bin process is started.
>> >
>> > When I select a firefox-bin process on the System Monitor the End
>> > Process
>> > button is activated.  When I click that button all of the firefox-bin
>> > processes are ended and I can open the Firefox browser.
>> >
>> > Why am I getting the futex_wait_que_me Waiting Channel for the
>> > firefox-bin
>> > process and how do I avoid it?
>> >
>> > I am using Firefox version 3.6.23, Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical
>> > -
>> > 1.0, with Ubuntu 10.04
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Dan Healy
>> >
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