I set up a Centos5 box at work a week or two ago. Today I had this
bizarre, repeatable problem:
fire up firefox 3.5.1, browse to centos.org, go to the wiki, click the
HOWTO button at the top of the page, and either at that point, or a
moment later when clicking the link for the RAID documents, KABOOOOMMM!!!
X dies and you return to a login prompt. I did it at least three times.
Not nice when I have other windows open with unsaved files open.
This box has some nvidia card or other, but I've NOT installed the
closed nvidia drivers. haven't looked, but I guess that means it's
using the nv driver instead.
Never seen that before, anybody else experienced it?
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, fred smith<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:> I set up a Centos5 box at work a week or two ago. Today I had this > bizarre, repeatable problem: > > fire up firefox 3.5.1, browse to centos.org, go to the wiki, click the > HOWTO button at the top of the page, and either at that point, or a > moment later when clicking the link for the RAID documents, KABOOOOMMM!!! > X dies and you return to a login prompt. I did it at least three times.> Never seen that before, anybody else experienced it?Yes. Please see these (long) threads: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079046.html and http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=21070&forum=37 Akemi
fred smith wrote:> I set up a Centos5 box at work a week or two ago. Today I had this > bizarre, repeatable problem: > > fire up firefox 3.5.1, browse to centos.org, go to the wiki, click the > HOWTO button at the top of the page, and either at that point, or a > moment later when clicking the link for the RAID documents, KABOOOOMMM!!! > X dies and you return to a login prompt. I did it at least three times. > > Not nice when I have other windows open with unsaved files open. > > This box has some nvidia card or other, but I've NOT installed the > closed nvidia drivers. haven't looked, but I guess that means it's > using the nv driver instead. > > Never seen that before, anybody else experienced it? > >That's the 3rd report I've seen of that recently - and all involve the distro "nv" driver. I'm using nvidia proprietary drivers and am unable to replicate it. I'd be interested to hear if switching to the proprietary drivers makes the problem go away for you. Others thought it might be an issue with Firefox, but I'm thinking not.
fred smith wrote:> Never seen that before, anybody else experienced it?Yes a few others have reported similar behavior not long ago, solution is to downgrade firefox. I'm stayin clear of ff 3.5 myself mainly for plugin compatibility last time I checked nearly 100% of my plugins were not compatible. nate