mozilla causing system lockups?

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 11/24/2003 10:26 AM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:
>
> > On 11/24/03 07:12, Tom Wilson wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> > I tried going to 1.5.  No improvement.  At least its not just me.  I
> > just did a quick bugzilla search, and found nothing.  grrrr
> >
>
> I've read that 1.5 is less stable than 1.4.1, so I wouldn't suspect that
> going to 1.5 would solve your problem. Are you using 1.4, or 1.4.1?

I was uising 1.4, then upgreaded to 1.5.  Both exhibited the same
behavior.

> FWIW, I've not experienced any lock-ups with Moz in quite some time on
> my home system (was RHL 8.0 with Moz 1.3 and now Fedora Core 1 with
> 1.4.1). My wife uses it quite frequently for Yahoo mail and general
> browsing the 'net and has said nothing WRT to system lock-up problems.
> I currently use Firebird 0.7 for the majority of my browsing
> (occasionally Konqueror 3.1.4 to access the sites that don't work with
> Firebird), and haven't experienced any lock-up issues.
>
> Could your problem be linked to video card/driver issues?

I guess, but i'd be kinda surprised, seeing as how the hardware hasn't
changed, and the only thing that has the problem is mozilla.  I'm not
using anything bleeding edge.  Its an i810 videocard.

In fact, i'm almost positive its not the videocard/driver, as I've got
another hardware identical box that is not having the lockups problem.
That other box is running a different linux distro though.


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