mozilla causing system lockups?

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:12:50 -0500 Tom Wilson <twilson at mcswaincarpets.com>
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.  
> 

Not a clue.  I've only used the MozillaFirebird releases for the past year, and
I've never experienced lockups of the machine.  When using the FB 0.7 released
code, I experienced a number of instances of "poof, it's gone" (usually related
to downloads) and a repeatable problem with print (hang of FB only, had to kill
all FB tasks), but no such troubles now that I have upgraded to the latest
nightly download.

Daring to state the obvious: the behavior you describe is most frequently an X
and/or video driver problem.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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