mozilla causing system lockups?

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
>
> 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.

Yea, i've been using 1.5 on 6 other boxes without a single hitch.  Granted
the box that is locking up is the ony that i use more than 50% of the
time.

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

thanks, i'll try that.

> > 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.

I wish it was that simple, but this box has the videocard onboard,
which means i'd have to swap out the mobo.  This mobo was EOL over a year
ago, so i'm basically looking at a new box if it comes down to that.  I
just really don't want to sink $$$ into a new box for something that might
very well be purely a software issue.

> 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?

I'm not clear on what you're asking here.  Did you want me to try the
fedora mozilla RPM?  FWIW, i've been using the binary tarball from the
mozilla ftp server.

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