On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:07:46 -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
Do you have an NVIDIA graphics card?
Yes, I do. And, come to think of it, I "did" recently run a "yum update".
Maybe the El Repo Nvidia driver has a problem with Firefox?
I remember it was miserable installing the Nvidia driver a while ago...
Looking at my log file, here's how I had installed the Nvidia driver from the El Repo repository:
1. I identified my kernel version: $ uname -r ==> 2.6.32-279.5.1.el6.x86_64
2. I identified my graphics card $ /sbin/lspci -nn | grep VGA ==>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 [Quadro FX 880M] [10de:0a3c] (rev a2)
3. I identified the latest version of the graphics driver available: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-304.37-driver.html Note: I compared this latest version & support information with the latest available at El Repo in the next step.
4. I compared the Nvidia version with the latest available El Repo version: http://elrepo.org/tiki/Driver+Versions Note: I searched for "nvidia" to find the latest version to be "nvidia 295.40".
5. I enabled the El Repo repository: $ sudo rpm --import http://elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org $ sudo rpm -Uvh http://elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-4.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
5. I installed the latest Nvidia driver from the El Repo repository: $ sudo yum --enablerepo elrepo install kmod-nvidia $ sudo yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=elrepo install nvidia-x11-drv-32bit
if yes, are you using the driver package directly from NVIDIA (as opposed to one of the RPM versions from, e.g., epel, or wherever...
I'm using the one from El Repo.
I've had what you describe happen to me under those circumstances. The nvidia drivers replace some system library, and now and then (not too often, in my experience, in fact pretty rarely) that system lib gets updated, threby trashing the Nvidia replacement.
Come to think of it, I 'did' recently run a "yum update"!
When that happens, firing up firefox will kill X, dropping you back to the login.
if that sounds like what you see, just go rerun the nvidia installer, then you should be working again.
So, you suggest I install the Nvidia drivers directly from Nvidia and not the Nvidia drivers from the El Repo repository?
Note: I'm not sure I know how to do that.