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FS#9066 - Firefox in Archlinux doesn't display some pages.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jorge Ortega (stargeizer) - Tuesday, 01 January 2008, 06:32 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 09 February 2008, 14:03 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description and steps to reproduce:
Use FF Bon-echo 2.0.0.11-1, and go to www.webarchive.org, in the wayback machine box, write "www.gentrinoo.org" (without quotes) and click on "take me back". Choose any date from 2006-2007 and wait... The page will not load and will be "transferring data from..." permanently, but if you want to see the source code of the web page, is there and complete. Looking in the console errors there are at least 14 warnings... The problem is that i've 3 boxes with FF, one is a pclinuxos 2007, the other is a gentoo and the other is a fedora 7. All have the same version of firefox and there's no problems... (the error console only reports 2 warnings in all the other versions) and is consistent with the windows versions of firefox. Only the archlinux version has this.

Any thoughts on this??


Additional info:
* package version(s) 2.0.0.11-1
* config and/or log files etc.
I don't think hardware config is important here. I'm using Archlinux updated, and XFCE4 as WM.

Regards

J.
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Saturday, 09 February 2008, 14:03 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  at least not in Firefox
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 01 January 2008, 11:29 GMT
Can't replicate your problem here, Firefox 2.0.0.11-1, x86_64. I do get the warnings in the error console, but they're CSS warnings that have nothing to do with pages not loading. Those warnings are plain CSS errors in the website.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Tuesday, 01 January 2008, 16:41 GMT
works fine on Firefox 2.0.0.11-1 i686 also. maybe try with a clean profile (eg. move ~/.mozilla temporarily someplace else)
Comment by Jorge Ortega (stargeizer) - Wednesday, 02 January 2008, 02:20 GMT
Here doesn't. Even removing the .mozilla directory.

My specs:

Toshiba Satellite M30, 512 MB RAM, Centrino Processor
Archlinux updated and localized to es_ES.

going to reinstall the system and see what happens.

Regards.

J.
Comment by Jorge Ortega (stargeizer) - Wednesday, 02 January 2008, 04:14 GMT
Nahhh... forget it. The error is not in firefox... there's an eternal TIME_WAIT and FIN_WAIT1 states that makes firefox wait forever for the page to be loaded. Put firefox in offline mode and reload the page makes work as intended. No other workaround known for me at least.

My ISP is to blame. Sigh... (tested in another connection and works, also doesn't work if you are behind a windows machine through ICS).

Regards

J.
Comment by Jorge Ortega (stargeizer) - Wednesday, 02 January 2008, 04:18 GMT
(but the interesting thing is that works flawlessly in the other distros..... and the same connection... weird)

Maybe the bug belongs to another component...

J.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 08 January 2008, 01:44 GMT
Ehm..., can we close this bug now? I don't think we can do anything with this.
Comment by Jorge Ortega (stargeizer) - Tuesday, 08 January 2008, 13:13 GMT
yeah... until i can recompile a vanilla kernel and see what happens i can't confirm if this is a arch-kernel only (since only happens in arch... others distros doesn't have this problem) but is confirmed that some malformed TCP handshakes are involved, so is ok to close it.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 08 January 2008, 13:27 GMT
This is most likely something related to broken window scaling (not out mistake, it's a broken router you're having traffic routed through):

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_default_win_scale

Try the above command to see if window scaling is an issue here.
Comment by Jorge Ortega (stargeizer) - Wednesday, 09 January 2008, 02:24 GMT
Same result. I don't think that the problem is the window scaling, since only happen with some pages. For now you can close this thread, since right now i don't think that is a firefox issue anyway. The problem is in another place and since there's no problem with other distros so far, maybe something is slightly broken (or maybe i just have bad luck... i've a notebook and linux and some old notebooks tends to drive some users really mad...) anyway if i find something, i will fill another bug report.

Thanks for the replies, and sorry about my english.

J.

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