mozilla causing system lockups?

Tom Wilson twilson
Mon May 17 11:56:00 PDT 2004


On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 23:17, Net Llama! wrote:
> Anyone seeing some extreme instability where your entire box locks up 
> (unrecoverable) when using Mozilla?  I've noticed that ever since 
> Mozilla-1.4, on one of my boxes, i'm getting random lockups.  It only 
> happens when i'm actively using mozilla though.  For example, i could be 
> changing tabs, or middle-clicking a link, and BAM, game over, the box is 
> locked up.  Not even a response to ping or Sysrq.  There are no errors in 
> messages.   I thought it might have been a hardware problem, but i've 
> swapped out the memory & CPU with no improvement.

I've noticed it as well.  With the same symtoms you described; nothing
in the logs, not reponse to anything.  It has also taken to restarting
the x-server occasionally when trying to watch video clips off of a
website.  I haven't found a fix and haven't upgrade to 1.5 yet to see if
that fixes it.  


Tom Wilson 
McSwain Carpets 
513.771.1400 x124 
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