My firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091216 Fedora/3.5.6-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.6) on Gnome 2.26.3 will randomly crash, without any errors. /var/log/messages & /var/log/Xorg.0.log doesn't show anything that caused any errors. And it doesn't matter on which website(s) I'm busy with, it will just crash.
Does anyone know how to check for a problem?
My PC has:
Intel Pentium(R) Dual-Core E5200 CPU
4GB DDRII Corsair RAM
3x 160GB SATAII HDD
Asus Nvidia 8800GT graphics card.
I have updated to the latest nVidia drivers
[root@Rudi-PC ~]# dmesg* | grep nvidia
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
nvidia 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
nvidia-config-d[1399]: segfault at 7f0888000000 ip 0000003ff107bf54 sp 00007ffff39d1898 error 4 in libc-2.10.2.so[3ff1000000+164000]
[root@Rudi-PC ~]# dmesg* | grep nvidia
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
nvidia 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
nvidia-config-d[1399]: segfault at 7f0888000000 ip 0000003ff107bf54 sp 00007ffff39d1898 error 4 in libc-2.10.2.so[3ff1000000+164000]
[root@Rudi-PC ~]# uname -a
Linux Rudi-PC 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Feb 11 07:06:34 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
P.S. This is on Fedora Core 12, but it's RH based, so I thought maybe someone on this list might have some insight into the problem?
In fact,I only installed 3 plug-ins yesterday, had nothing before that.
Something interesting that I picked up is that Thunderbird will close randomly (very seldom though) as well, so I don't know if it's Firefox specific though.
I have picked up that it happens more often when my PC's memory usage is above 2GB RAM, and memtest86+ didn't indicate any memory problems. If I have less tabs open, it happens less often, but the more tabs I have open, the more often it happens.
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02-17-2010, 06:38 AM
Timo Schoeler
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thus Rudi Ahlers spake:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Frank Cox <theatre@sasktel.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:51 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>> Does anyone know how to check for a problem?
>> The first thing to do is disable all firefox plugins and see if the
>> problem goes away.
>>
>> --
>> MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
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>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> I already tried that, no luck
>
> In fact,I only installed 3 plug-ins yesterday, had nothing before that.
>
> Something interesting that I picked up is that Thunderbird will close
> randomly (very seldom though) as well, so I don't know if it's Firefox
> specific though.
>
> I have picked up that it happens more often when my PC's memory usage is
> above 2GB RAM, and memtest86+ didn't indicate any memory problems. If I have
> less tabs open, it happens less often, but the more tabs I have open, the
> more often it happens.
Hi,
I have the same behaviour here on my known-good memory (8GiByte)
'workstation', both for Firefox (have about 100 tabs open, spread over
four windows) and Thunderbird, w/Thunderbird having 'uptimes' of a few
weeks regularly, while FF tends to crash every ten to 15 days (give or
take).
To sum it up: I don't really think it's a memory problem. It can't be
excluded, of course, but maybe there's more crash prone stuff in there.
Timo
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Something interesting that I picked up is that Thunderbird will close
randomly (very seldom though) as well, so I don't know if it's Firefox
specific though.
I have picked up that it happens more often when my PC's memory usage
is above 2GB RAM, and memtest86+ didn't indicate any memory problems.
If I have less tabs open, it happens less often, but the more tabs I
have open, the more often it happens.
At the same time, on the same PC, when I'm in Windows XP SP3 (dual
boot), I can have many more tabs open as well as Thunderbird,
Quickbooks, Photoshop CS3 and some other applications, and it doesn't
cash.
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02-17-2010, 08:17 AM
Eero Volotinen
annoying random Firefox crash - how to debug?
2010/2/17 Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@softdux.com>:
> Hi,
>
> My firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6)
> Gecko/20091216 Fedora/3.5.6-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.6) on Gnome 2.26.3 will
> randomly crash, without any errors. /var/log/messages & /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> doesn't show anything that caused any errors. And it doesn't matter on which
> website(s) I'm busy with, it will just crash.
>
> Does anyone know how to check for a problem?
>
> My PC has:
>
> Intel Pentium(R) Dual-Core E5200 CPU
> 4GB DDRII Corsair RAM
> 3x 160GB SATAII HDD
> Asus Nvidia 8800GT graphics card.
>
>
> I have updated to the latest nVidia drivers
Latest stable or latest beta?
Anyway, if your card works with opensource version of driver, then try it.
--
Eero
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02-17-2010, 08:23 AM
Rudi Ahlers
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@iki.fi> wrote:
Latest stable or latest beta?
Anyway, if your card works with opensource version of driver, then try it.
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02-17-2010, 10:17 AM
Paul Bijnens
annoying random Firefox crash - how to debug?
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.)
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. *
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02-17-2010, 11:25 AM
Timo Schoeler
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thus Rudi Ahlers spake:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Paul Bijnens
> <Paul.Bijnens@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.)
>>
>> --
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>> ************************************************** *********************
>>
>
>
>
> 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.
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