mozilla causing system lockups?

[Tim Wunder]

On 11/24/2003 1:40 PM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

For kicks, I'd recommend trying 1.4.1. 1.4.x is s'posed to be the stable 
branch and 1.5/1.6 etc are s'posed to be the more bleeding edge 
releases. I know those in the #fedora IRC channel recomended not 
upgrading Moz to 1.5 when I asked not too long ago. FWIW, I'm using a 
Win32 1.6b nightly from the beginning of November without any issues.

Also, it may be worth a post on
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.unix

>>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.
> 

OK, sounds like it wouldn't be a driver issue, but failing hardware 
would still seem to be a candidate. And your symptoms sure sound like a 
hardware problem. I know you said you swapped out RAM and CPU without 
effect, no harm in swapping out the vid card.

Regardless, good luck u figgerin' it out...

Oh wait... I just remembered. I know there's a problem with
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/
causing severe system slow-downs under Windows and have seen reports of 
lockups with the linux version of Moz. Does that link cause the problem 
you're seeing?


HTH,
Tim