Firefox freezes on launch with 'futex_wait_queue_me'

[Danté]

Binary package hint: firefox

Every time I start Firefox, both firefox and java are listed as 'futex_wait_queue_me' in the system monitor. Firefox is not responsive at this time. I have no java applications running on either the computer nor firefox. This happens every time I launch firefox.

Everything becomes unresponsive, webpage content, scrollbars, UI buttons and window controls.

Checking on this tells me people around 8.10 got this bug. However, I am on 10.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 8 11:19:21 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Cristian Arezzini (macavity80)]

I have the same symptoms. Both Firefox and java processes are in the "futex_wait_queue_me" state. It usually recovers after 20-30 seconds. It usually happens right after starting Firefox, but sometimes also during normal use.
I'm on Ubuntu Maverick 10.10, newly installed and fully updated.

Cristian

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Danté and anyone else affected,

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

We would like to close this bug report as it refers to old versions of Ubuntu and Firefox but before we do we are asking do you still see a problem related to the one that was reported?

If we do not hear from you the bug report will close itself in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]