-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 thus Rudi Ahlers spake: > 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. 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. Timo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLe+Akfg746kcGBOwRAqqbAJ9XPmqGja7MjEmybiFmmVk5PH8ePwCgukRn ENTmW8VJuM1qrlBxiTCfsfk= =Cmzi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----