Bug #9989

Liferea freezes at startup

Added by mercedes508 2015-08-13 03:26:06 . Updated 2018-08-18 11:01:42 .

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Low
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
Start date:
2015-08-13
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Research
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
Feed Reader
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Description

When launching Liferea in Tails (1.4.1, 1.5), it freezes and consumes up to 100% of the proc for at least 30sec-1min before going back to normal.

It doesn’t happen on Debian Wheezy.

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Bug #11082: Replace Liferea Resolved 2016-05-05

History

#1 Updated by sajolida 2015-08-13 14:04:36

  • Status changed from Confirmed to New

I can’t reproduce that in my Tails 1.5. It probably depends on more things than what you described.

#2 Updated by sajolida 2015-08-13 14:04:51

  • Assignee set to mercedes508
  • QA Check set to Info Needed

#3 Updated by sajolida 2015-08-14 04:00:10

  • Assignee deleted (mercedes508)
  • QA Check deleted (Info Needed)

Today I managed to reproduce that. With a quite fresh Tails session, starting Liferea from the GNOME menu.

But then, if I kill it and start it again from the terminal with torsocks liferea it runs fine.

#4 Updated by mercedes508 2015-08-14 10:18:26

  • Status changed from New to Confirmed

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2015-08-18 05:12:17

I think we should drop Liferea:

  • it’s a pain to make its settings etc. persistent;
  • it has security issues we were not able/willing to resolve;
  • there are leads wrt. letting Icedove handle feed reading.

So the “Low” priority sounds good for the time being.

#6 Updated by sajolida 2016-02-08 17:34:30

Reproduced in Tails 2.0.

#7 Updated by sajolida 2016-05-09 11:36:44

  • Affected tool set to Feed Reader

#8 Updated by goupille 2017-08-15 16:33:06

I reproduced it on tails 3.1

#9 Updated by intrigeri 2017-08-19 16:24:22

I suspect torsocks 2.2.0-1+deb9u1 (available in stable proposed-updates) will fix that.
If curious, retry with that version, or wait for Stretch 9.2 to be out (it’ll be in there).
But really we want to get rid of Liferea so don’t kill yourself on it.

#10 Updated by Anonymous 2018-08-18 10:58:22

#11 Updated by Anonymous 2018-08-18 11:01:43

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Rejected

There’s been gigantic progress on replacing lifera on Bug #11082.
3.9 will have the deprecation wrapper + updated doc that recommends Thunderbird instead of Liferea. Then as per Bug #11082#note-17 we shall remove Liferea in 3.10 or 3.11. Closing this ticket.