I set up a Centos5 box at work a week or two ago. Today I had this bizarre, repeatable problem:
fire up firefox 3.5.1, browse to centos.org, go to the wiki, click the HOWTO button at the top of the page, and either at that point, or a moment later when clicking the link for the RAID documents, KABOOOOMMM!!! X dies and you return to a login prompt. I did it at least three times.
Not nice when I have other windows open with unsaved files open.
This box has some nvidia card or other, but I've NOT installed the closed nvidia drivers. haven't looked, but I guess that means it's using the nv driver instead.
Never seen that before, anybody else experienced it?
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, fred smithfredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
I set up a Centos5 box at work a week or two ago. Today I had this bizarre, repeatable problem:
fire up firefox 3.5.1, browse to centos.org, go to the wiki, click the HOWTO button at the top of the page, and either at that point, or a moment later when clicking the link for the RAID documents, KABOOOOMMM!!! X dies and you return to a login prompt. I did it at least three times.
Never seen that before, anybody else experienced it?
Yes. Please see these (long) threads:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079046.html
and
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=21070&forum=3...
Akemi
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 05:05:36PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, fred smithfredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
I set up a Centos5 box at work a week or two ago. Today I had this bizarre, repeatable problem:
fire up firefox 3.5.1, browse to centos.org, go to the wiki, click the HOWTO button at the top of the page, and either at that point, or a moment later when clicking the link for the RAID documents, KABOOOOMMM!!! X dies and you return to a login prompt. I did it at least three times.
Never seen that before, anybody else experienced it?
Yes. Please see these (long) threads:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079046.html
and
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=21070&forum=3...
Akemi
One of those threads mentions a number of people using the mharris repo. Just for the record, I'm using the build obtained directly from mozilla.org.
I'm using it athome, too, also on an up to date centos 5 box, and have not seen that problem--I've actually looked at those centos wiki pages a number of times in the past week with no trouble.
On that box at home, it's using an ancient gforce4 card and it IS using the nvidia drivers. wonder if that makes any difference....
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 05:05:36PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, fred smithfredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
I set up a Centos5 box at work a week or two ago. Today I had this bizarre, repeatable problem:
fire up firefox 3.5.1, browse to centos.org, go to the wiki, click the HOWTO button at the top of the page, and either at that point, or a moment later when clicking the link for the RAID documents, KABOOOOMMM!!! X dies and you return to a login prompt. I did it at least three times.
Never seen that before, anybody else experienced it?
Yes. Please see these (long) threads:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079046.html
and
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=21070&forum=3...
Akemi _______________________________________________
One of those threads includes a message from Olaf Mueller in which he suggests adding this stuff (below) to Section "Device" in your xorg.conf:
Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
I did add it, and have not been able to reproduce the crash since.
I'm not sure what that does to performance, if anything.
fred smith wrote:
I set up a Centos5 box at work a week or two ago. Today I had this bizarre, repeatable problem:
fire up firefox 3.5.1, browse to centos.org, go to the wiki, click the HOWTO button at the top of the page, and either at that point, or a moment later when clicking the link for the RAID documents, KABOOOOMMM!!! X dies and you return to a login prompt. I did it at least three times.
Not nice when I have other windows open with unsaved files open.
This box has some nvidia card or other, but I've NOT installed the closed nvidia drivers. haven't looked, but I guess that means it's using the nv driver instead.
Never seen that before, anybody else experienced it?
That's the 3rd report I've seen of that recently - and all involve the distro "nv" driver. I'm using nvidia proprietary drivers and am unable to replicate it. I'd be interested to hear if switching to the proprietary drivers makes the problem go away for you. Others thought it might be an issue with Firefox, but I'm thinking not.
fred smith wrote:
Never seen that before, anybody else experienced it?
Yes a few others have reported similar behavior not long ago, solution is to downgrade firefox.
I'm stayin clear of ff 3.5 myself mainly for plugin compatibility last time I checked nearly 100% of my plugins were not compatible.
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