similar to: firefox and D state

On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, ken wrote: > On 09/20/2017 01:00 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> Previously when firefox went catatonic >> to the point that I could not even scroll, >> its CPU usage had gone to 100%+. >> Now top tells me that firefox, Web Content (with a space) >> or sometimes kswap... has process state D, >> uninterruptable sleep. >> >>

I'm running NoScript because otherwise Firefox freezes up a lot. Recently I've had difficulty accessing a site. I suspect the reason is that it uses redirection in a way that frustrates my efforts to give it permission. To test the notion, I'm considering temporarily allowing script globally. How hard is it to reverse? Will I need to redo previous permissions one at a time? --

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, ken wrote: > On 09/24/2017 02:26 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> From here: >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ >> ? >> > Yes. > > It can also be accessed from within Firefox -> Tools -> Add-ons -> > Extensions.? Then search for it, etc. Thanks. It works. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu

On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Peter wrote: > On 5/08/19 10:42 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> Mem:??????? 2020144???? 1454904?????? 76140????? 204764????? 489100 >> 135004 >> Swap:?????? 4883724????? 978480???? 3905244 > > free -h is generally more readable, but... > > It's RAM. You basically have a total of 2G ram on the system, you have > less than 500M available

Is Adobe the only provider of flash plugins? Is it still a gaping security hole? Do the answers depend on the browser? -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards

On 09/24/2017 02:26 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, ken wrote: > >> On 09/20/2017 01:00 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >>> Previously when firefox went catatonic >>> to the point that I could not even scroll, >>> its CPU usage had gone to 100%+. >>> Now top tells me that firefox, Web Content (with a space) >>> or sometimes

On 09/20/2017 01:00 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Previously when firefox went catatonic > to the point that I could not even scroll, > its CPU usage had gone to 100%+. > Now top tells me that firefox, Web Content (with a space) > or sometimes kswap... has process state D, > uninterruptable sleep. > > Any suggestions on how to deal? > > I often have a lot of tabs

On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, John Pierce wrote: > your DNS settings are in /etc/resolv.conf, just like every other unix > system since forever. Much to my surprise, I found this: # Generated by NetworkManager search midcoip.net nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 2001:48f8:3004:2ce:5a19:f8ff:fe9e:a4bc I doubt it's the source of my problems, but the second line looks like something midco did to

I've got a Brother HL-L2360D series printer connected to Centos 7. CUPS lists it as Generic PCL6/PCL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.9 . When I tell it to print a pdf file, it prints at most the first page. After powering the thing off and turning it on again, it printed page 3 of pages 3-6 . On trying it again, the thing claimed it was receiving data and printed page 3 of pages 3-6 again.

Both Gnome and KDE give me a loud squishy bell at the thought of the drop of a hat. I did not get that in C6. I infer it is a C7-specific thing. Short of disabling my audio altogether, how do I make it go away? Not one of C7's better features. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a

I'm running KDE on C7, so why would I have a gnome-shell process spending rather a lot of its time in D mode? -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards

For some reason, I no longer seem to get images from www.imdb.com , i.e. Internet Movie DataBase. The effect is really weird. I get from Firefox, Konqueror and Chromium. I'm running Centos 7. It's been happening for a few months now, so I really cannot tell what changed that mioght have caused it. How do I debug and fix this? Chromium still asks me for passwords a lot. I expect that is a

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, wwp wrote: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 12:02:34 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > >> I'm running CentOS 6. >> The audio goes in and out a lot. >> With vlc, I can sometimes get the audio back >> by turning the audio track off and on again. >> I have similar issues with a/v embedded in html.

How do I download pictures from a dumb phone? I have a Samsung phone I bought at a Walmart. According the the front, it worships Verizon. Beyond that, I'm not at all sure what kind. If I use a real USB connector to connect it to my PC, CentOS sees it as a character special device. What, if anything, I can do with that device, I do not know. I've not found any settings related to USB. In

youtube-dl doesn't work for me after a recent update. I do not use it often, so do not know whether the update matters. It gives the error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 6, in <module> from pkg_resources import load_entry_point ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources' I've tried reinstalling

All too often, my ssh session will freeze. I'm fairly certain the problem is at my end. None of the tilde commands work. In particular, ~# and ~. are nonfunctional. I can write to ssh's terminal window from another terminal window. If I kill the ssh process, I can ssh in again. The next time it happens, I will try another ssh session without killing the first one. dmesg did not show me

I'm running centos 7. Firefox spends so much time in th D state that I am trying konqueror. Displaying mathematics on wikipedia, e.g. Remez algorithm seems to be a no go. Wikipedia seems to use tex, so I installed texlive and texlive-* . Firefox hadn't needed it and it did not seem to help konqueror. My guess is that there is a bit somewhere that I need to flip, but I have no idea where it

My HP USB C3180 All-in-one printer accepts jobs, but does not print. A job simply sits in the queue. I haven't used it on this computer for a while. It will print a test page when I connect it. The last line from hp-info -i is 04/07/17 13:26:21 5012 Device communication error hennebry 0 (I've removed some blanks.) Any ideas on how to diagnose this? -- Michael hennebry at

On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 13:20, Michael Hennebry < > hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote: > >> I've been trying to move from Centos 7 to fedora. >> My monitor is 1440x900, but fedora only believes it's 640x480. > 1. What kind of video card is this? > 2.How is the video connected to the monitor?

I'm running CentOS 6. The audio goes in and out a lot. With vlc, I can sometimes get the audio back by turning the audio track off and on again. I have similar issues with a/v embedded in html. Any suggestions on how to diagnose this? -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph,