[SOLVED] Seamonkey 2.29 strange launch behaviour

coralfang · 09-19-2014, 08:26 AM

Since the update below, on x86_64, i'm getting some strange behaviour with seamonkey.

ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/s.../ChangeLog.txt

Code:

Tue Sep  9 18:01:05 UTC 2014
patches/packages/seamonkey-2.29-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.
  This update contains security fixes and improvements.
  (* Security fix *)
patches/packages/seamonkey-solibs-2.29-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz:  Upgraded.

This is what happens;

Code:

$ seamonkey 

(process:3589): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed

$ ps aux | grep seamonkey
ricky     3603 19.2  3.6 909412 299368 ?       Sl   10:08   0:02 /usr/bin/seamonkey
ricky     3606  0.5  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    10:08   0:00 [seamonkey] <defunct>

The process sits in the background for a while (sometimes 30 seconds, other times upto 20 minutes) and then opens all of a sudden with a barrage of windows. Before i tried running it from a terminal, i must have clicked the seamonkey icon a bunch of times, and sometime later i had 30+ windows suddenly open.

Other browsers seem to be working fine. What is causing this? Can anyone reproduce it?

brianL · 09-19-2014, 09:06 AM

Yeah, I get that warning:

Code:

brian@slackdesk:~$ seamonkey

(process:4646): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed

But it seems to open normally, no multiple openings. Opens from menu with no problems.

Philip Lacroix · 09-19-2014, 09:58 AM

Greetings.

The same warning appears here with Seamonkey (2.29), Firefox (24.8.0) and Thunderbird (24.8.0), but the applications start normally and without delays. Slackware 14.1_64.

Code:

bash-4.2$ firefox 

(process:14210): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed

Code:

bash-4.2$ thunderbird 

(process:14219): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion `sys_page_size == 0' failed

The warning seems to be related to a known bug which was previously solved, but apparently showed up again since GLib 2.35:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833117

Here's the older one:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672671

coralfang · 09-19-2014, 10:22 AM

Ok thanks. That's good to know it isn't something i've broken on my end. I'll add that seamonkey opens fine most of the time (maybe 70% of the time), but hangs every now and again. I use it for most web browsing so it's opened quite often.

I'll keep an eye on that bug report, cheers!