-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 thus Timo Schoeler spake: > 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. 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLe+K7fg746kcGBOwRAnzRAJ9vZg169QDZ/vhYPJQ3PtKq4n9wSQCeNdaa 6tqWU3Ehk4Y6znCx6svEKvQ= =W1RB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----