This just started happening this evening.
a little history:
way back last year, or thereabouts, I posted about a weird problem I was
having. over the course of 2 or 3 days I figured out how to fix it, but
not what the cause was. the fix amounts to navigating to my user's
.local/share/mime directory and removing the file named "globs".
So, back in the present: this evening that same problem recurred for
the 3rd or 4th time since the original event mentioned above. so I
deleted that file, logged off and back on (without the log off/on, the
problem still occurs).
Having done that, I went to fire up firefox and KABOOM!!
X dies and I land back at a login prompt.
several times.
every time.
tried running firefox from a terminal but I don't see anything
echoed to the terminal before it is blown away.
I still have the tarball from mozilla.org, so I moved aside the directory
where the firefox runtime stuff is, re-extracted the tarball and it still
croaks in the same way.
I'd appreciate some ideas to try, if anyone has any. Thanks in advance!
In the meantime, Opera works (though I can't install 12.0.2 for lack
of a suitable version of rpmlib, so I'm not left browseerless.
Fred
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---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
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"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the
kingdom of
heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) -----------------------------
fred smith
2012-Oct-18 00:43 UTC
[CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X [updated]
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:37:41PM -0400, fred smith wrote:> This just started happening this evening. > > a little history: > way back last year, or thereabouts, I posted about a weird problem I was > having. over the course of 2 or 3 days I figured out how to fix it, but > not what the cause was. the fix amounts to navigating to my user's > .local/share/mime directory and removing the file named "globs". > > So, back in the present: this evening that same problem recurred for > the 3rd or 4th time since the original event mentioned above. so I > deleted that file, logged off and back on (without the log off/on, the > problem still occurs). > > Having done that, I went to fire up firefox and KABOOM!! > X dies and I land back at a login prompt. > several times. > every time. > tried running firefox from a terminal but I don't see anything > echoed to the terminal before it is blown away. > > I still have the tarball from mozilla.org, so I moved aside the directory > where the firefox runtime stuff is, re-extracted the tarball and it still > croaks in the same way.Trying to start firefox in safemode makes no difference. still instant death.> > I'd appreciate some ideas to try, if anyone has any. Thanks in advance! > > In the meantime, Opera works (though I can't install 12.0.2 for lack > of a suitable version of rpmlib, so I'm not left browseerless. > > Fred > -- > ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- > "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of > heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." > ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) ----------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 ---------------------------------
fred smith wrote:> This just started happening this evening. > > a little history: > way back last year, or thereabouts, I posted about a weird problem I was > having. over the course of 2 or 3 days I figured out how to fix it, but > not what the cause was. the fix amounts to navigating to my user's > .local/share/mime directory and removing the file named "globs". > > So, back in the present: this evening that same problem recurred for > the 3rd or 4th time since the original event mentioned above. so I > deleted that file, logged off and back on (without the log off/on, the > problem still occurs). > > Having done that, I went to fire up firefox and KABOOM!! > X dies and I land back at a login prompt. > several times. > every time. > tried running firefox from a terminal but I don't see anything > echoed to the terminal before it is blown away. > > I still have the tarball from mozilla.org, so I moved aside the directory > where the firefox runtime stuff is, re-extracted the tarball and it still > croaks in the same way. > > I'd appreciate some ideas to try, if anyone has any. Thanks in advance!Are there any backtraces/errors in /var/log/Xorg.*.log* or /var/log/gdm/* ? James Pearson
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:37:41PM -0400, fred smith wrote:> This just started happening this evening. >I *don't* have the issue on x86_64 and nvidia-kmod drivers here. Maybe you can tell us more about your X setup. Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20121018/8efeb528/attachment-0004.sig>
On Friday, October 19, 2012 05:44:14 AM Ned Slider wrote:> On 19/10/12 02:36, fred smith wrote: > > that all makes perfect sense, except,... why did everything ELSE > > still work? (I admit to not having tried any of the GL screensaver > > demos, or any high-end GL games...)> Only applications using OpenGL would be affected.> If you want to test for yourself, try running 'glxgears'.GoogleEarth is another good test case, as it stresses the driver pretty hard.