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I'm experiencing this bug with the latest Dapper as of Apr 23, 2006. However, it is not Firefox specific, it just occurs during times of high load, which happen to be when Firefox or a java app like Azureus are running. I'm cutting and pasting my descriptions from this forum thread: http://
For the last 3 months I have experienced unexplained lockups while using many applications but especially while using Firefox and Azureus. What happens exactly is the GUI will become totally unresponsive, but music and movies will typically continue to play. I can also move the mouse. But any amount of pressing CTRL ALT DEL or attempting to click the close button on the in-focus application (typically Firefox) will have no effect. I have been using Dapper since at least Flight-3 and have experienced this with increasing frequency since then. This week the rate of lockups has peaked to about 2 per day. At first install, the rate was about once every 2-3 weeks, maybe longer.
I am using an nvidia card and w/ the 'nvidia' drivers and RenderAccel enabled. I am NOT using XGL.
This is the last item present in my syslog before the machine restarts:
Apr 21 14:28:39 localhost kernel: [4296241.244000] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0000 04d0 00000000 0000fbdc dfff0000 00ffffff
Apr 21 14:28:39 localhost kernel: [4296241.258000] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 28, L0 -> L0
I backed up my bookmarks, deleted by ~/.mozilla folder, started firefox, restored by bookmarks, and reinstalled only the extensions I use and now things were much smoother for a few days, presumably because Firefox was less load on the system. This lasted for about 2 days and then the crashes came back.
A user pointed out "A long shot. I've been having some similar lockups until I noticed that my swap partition hat "disapeared". Restored swap and no lockups since."
I replied "I checked and my swap partition is functioning fine. I am not using an underpowered machine by any means, I have one gig of ram and one gig of swap, on a 2ghz processor. There's no good reason for this."