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Re: strange behavior after reboot, iceweasel locking everything up



On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 06:39:05PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 06:26:34PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 05:08:16PM -0400, tony baldwin wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Sun, August 12, 2012 1:14 pm, Camale�n wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:45:03 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Yesterday I had to reboot my machine. Cleaning house, I had dislodged
> > > >> the plug for a power strip that powered the computer, monitor, and
> > > >> printer.
> > > >>
> > > >> Now, I am seeing very odd behavior.
> > > >
> ... clippage ...
> > Still having issues with iceweasel, however, being very, very slow in
> > loading pages and stuff and other applications hanging at the same time.
> > Even something as innocuous as running "ls" in a terminal will hang and
> > wait until iceweasel is done, so very weird.
> > Iceweasel will blank out, too, so I can not even read another tab or
> > something while waiting for a new tab to load a page, etc.
> > It does one of those things where, say, if I go to workspace 2 while
> > iceweasel is loading a page, workspace 2 being always a terminator
> > terminal full screen, then go back to workspace 1 (iceweasel), I see the
> > terminal where the iceweasel window should be.
> > Or if I go to another workspace that's empty, then go back to wordspace
> > 1, I see the top-bar of the iceweasel window, and the empy desktop.
> > Weird.
> 
> The problem now is definitely something to do with iceweasel.
> I do not have the problem of stuff locking up when iceweasel is not
> running.
> I can use google-chrome without issue (but do not want to use chrome.
> I want to use iceweasel. I do not want google tracking me all over the
> internet).

Okay, so I did some digging around, and found out I had 4 xulrunners
installed (I was seeing a lot of xulrunner in htop with iceweasel
running, and wondering if this was somehow at fault).
I completely removed all of them, which, of course, took iceweasel with
it. 
I then reinstalled iceweasel (14, from backports) and it brought back
only one xulrunner, being xulrunner-14.
Things seem to be normal now.
It seems perhaps too much xulrunner was maybe the source of the
iceweasel problem.
The hdd problem seems solved, too, from my manual fscking.

./tony
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