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thus Timo Schoeler spake:
thus Rudi Ahlers spake:
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Paul Bijnens Paul.Bijnens@xplanation.comwrote:
On 2010-02-17 10:23, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
IS it the graphics card? Other programs, like Bluefish, Eclipse, Open Office, etc doesn't crash.
I also have the problem, also using an nvidia card (currently using their proprietary driver now, version NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run).
My thunderbird used to be rock stable (uptimes several weeks), but recently it started to crash as well (about once a week or so).
Even more disturbing is that now gnome-terminal also starts crashing. I usually have many (30+) gnome terminal windows open on several virtual screens and on a crash, they all disappear (except maybe one or two, which were started by another launcher).
What I also noticed is that "suddenly" the focus changes, and many (all?) minimized windows suddenly get unminimized again. I also have lots of yellow sticky notes, usually hidden, and they also suddenly get unhiden as well (that's usually how I notice the focus change).
Maybe window manager related (I'm using the standard gnome in centos5 latest)?
Sometimes, it even happens when I'm not at my keyboard at all... And, indeed, it gets more frequent recently. (Firefox crashing several times a day, gnome-terminal 1-2 times a week. Windows unminimizing without any action on my part several times a day as well.)
-- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology Services Tel +32 16 397.525 Interleuvenlaan 86, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.552
Ok, so it isn't just me :)
But, what is causing the problem? I changed from the default naveou driver to the nvidia driver (via yum install nvidia) but that's didn't fix the problem either. So I doubt if it actually is the nVidia card / driver that's causing the problem.
Same here; I'm tracking nVidia's driver (on CentOS 5.3/5.4 x86_64, GeForce 8600 GT) for more than a year now. Compared with my home boxen (same OS, but ATI based) I have the same issue and frequency of WM disappearing/FF crashing.
I'd like to add that occasional (and that is what I would rate this behaviour of Firefox or a part of GNOME, at least on my machines) crashing of an application happened to me on almost any system, be it a standard PeeCee or a high end UNIX workstation (like an IBM Power, SGI MIPS or Sun SPARC).
Timo