Firefox keeps taking X11 and then the whole machine with it. It
requires a hard reset as even pinging the machine does not work. Only
Firefox seems to be doing this.
Does anyone else have the same problem?
Anyone knows how to solve/debug this?
; uname -a
FreeBSD rubicon.york.ac.uk 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 8
16:18:46 BST 2005 root@rubicon.york.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP
i386
; pkg_info | grep xorg
xorg-6.8.2 X.Org distribution metaport
; pkg_info | grep firefox
firefox-1.0.6_1,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla
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Yann Golanski wrote:>Firefox keeps taking X11 and then the whole machine with it. It >requires a hard reset as even pinging the machine does not work. Only >Firefox seems to be doing this. > >Does anyone else have the same problem? > >Anyone knows how to solve/debug this? > >; uname -a >FreeBSD rubicon.york.ac.uk 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 8 >16:18:46 BST 2005 root@rubicon.york.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP >i386 >; pkg_info | grep xorg >xorg-6.8.2 X.Org distribution metaport >; pkg_info | grep firefox >firefox-1.0.6_1,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla > > >no running fine and stable on my machine, 5.4-STABLE $ uname -a FreeBSD canis.local 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri Aug 12 19:36:45 CEST 2005 domi@canis.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CANIS i386 Firefox 1.0.6_1,1 and xorg6.8.2, both packages and not compiled from source
> Firefox keeps taking X11 and then the whole machine with it. It > requires a hard reset as even pinging the machine does not work. Only > Firefox seems to be doing this. > > Does anyone else have the same problem? > > Anyone knows how to solve/debug this?I've been having this problem for about a month now. The machine doesn't always lock up completely. The times when I can login remotely top shows Xorg using the 97-98% cpu time. Killing Xorg drops to the console, but its still unresponsive and I have to reboot. Once or twice this has happened without firefox running so I'm thinking it might be an Xorg problem. I've also noticed that sometimes shortly before the lock up fonts start being replaced with red boxes when a window is refreshed. I've tried new/more RAM but that didn't seem to help.
On 15 Aug, Yann Golanski wrote:> Firefox keeps taking X11 and then the whole machine with it. It > requires a hard reset as even pinging the machine does not work. Only > Firefox seems to be doing this. > > Does anyone else have the same problem? > > Anyone knows how to solve/debug this? > > ; uname -a > FreeBSD rubicon.york.ac.uk 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 8 > 16:18:46 BST 2005 root@rubicon.york.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP > i386 > ; pkg_info | grep xorg > xorg-6.8.2 X.Org distribution metaport > ; pkg_info | grep firefox > firefox-1.0.6_1,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla >
On 15 Aug, Yann Golanski wrote:> Firefox keeps taking X11 and then the whole machine with it. It > requires a hard reset as even pinging the machine does not work. Only > Firefox seems to be doing this. > > Does anyone else have the same problem? > > Anyone knows how to solve/debug this? >What X11 driver are you using? I am using the 'radeon' driver and had to set: Option "NoAccel" "true" in the "Device" section from my xorg.conf file. Just in case. Phil.
Quoth Yann Golanski on Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 14:38:05 +0100> Firefox keeps taking X11 and then the whole machine with it. [...]Thanks to all those who emailed and offered their suggestions. In a fit of rage, I re-installed the whole machine and the problem was still there. I then looked into the xorg configuration file and decided to nuke my old one and re-create a new one. Changing the driver for my graphics card from the ati driver to the radeon driver and reducing the color to 16 made the problem go away. So, that's the solution in so far as I see it... I maybe wrong. If I am, I'll post another message. *sigh* Back to do some real work now. -- yann@kierun.org -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050816/19299774/attachment.bin