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 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 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 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'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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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 Sun, 17 Mar 2019, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 3/17/19 4:47 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> Wikipedia seems to use tex, so I installed texlive and texlive-* . > > > Formulas can be composed with tex, but they're displayed as images.? You > shouldn't need any special browser support to display formulas.? Can you > post a screenshot somewhere?