On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens at xplanation.com>wrote: > 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. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100217/843524fe/attachment-0005.html>