[CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up

John Doe jdmls at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 26 12:20:49 UTC 2011


From: Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40 at ocellaris.net>

>      I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has
> already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing
> up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running
> firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up.
> When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined  to think it's
> the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem?

I've had "many" temporary whole desktop freezes due to Firefox being overloaded.
Not sure who is the culprit... Gnome? Xorg? NVidia driver?
Guess nothing in the bios or lnux logs?
You could try another browser for a while and see if there are no more freezes...

JD



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