Hi, Starting with 8.3, I've been experiencing FreeBSD freezing up completely after using firefox for a while. Thinking the problem would go away if I upgraded to 9.0, I did that and I am still experiencing the same freezing up. The mouse pointer freezes, the keyboard freezes (caps lock light will not come on; Ctrl-Alt-F[1-10] does not work etc.). The only way to get the system back is by pressing and holding down the power button. The problem seems similar to: kern/163145 There is nothing in /var/log/messages to indicate a problem. Output of pciconf -lv and uname -a are at: http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/wisdom/ Anybody else experiencing similar freeze ups with 8.3 or 9.0 while using firefox?
Hi, On Friday 30 March 2012 09:28:06 Joseph Olatt wrote:> > Starting with 8.3, I've been experiencing FreeBSD freezing up completely > after using firefox for a while. Thinking the problem would go away if I > upgraded to 9.0, I did that and I am still experiencing the same > freezing up. The mouse pointer freezes, the keyboard freezes (caps lock > light will not come on; Ctrl-Alt-F[1-10] does not work etc.). The only > way to get the system back is by pressing and holding down the power > button. > > The problem seems similar to: kern/163145 > > > There is nothing in /var/log/messages to indicate a problem. Output of > pciconf -lv and uname -a are at: > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/wisdom/ > > Anybody else experiencing similar freeze ups with 8.3 or 9.0 while using > firefox? >I use 8.3 and Firefox without problems. What extension did you install? Are they all properly updated? Earlier, it helped deleting firefox' directory in the user directory. Erich
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:28:06 +0200, Joseph Olatt <joji@eskimo.com> wrote:> Hi, > > Starting with 8.3, I've been experiencing FreeBSD freezing up completely > after using firefox for a while. Thinking the problem would go away if I > upgraded to 9.0, I did that and I am still experiencing the same > freezing up. The mouse pointer freezes, the keyboard freezes (caps lock > light will not come on; Ctrl-Alt-F[1-10] does not work etc.). The only > way to get the system back is by pressing and holding down the power > button. > > The problem seems similar to: kern/163145 > > > There is nothing in /var/log/messages to indicate a problem. Output of > pciconf -lv and uname -a are at: > > http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/wisdom/ > > Anybody else experiencing similar freeze ups with 8.3 or 9.0 while using > firefox?Since Firefox uses all kinds of GPU stuff nowadays. Is it possible it locks up your graphics card? I suggest trying to turn of GPU hardware acceleration in Firefox. Ronald.