RE: Debian crashes
I had similar problems a week or so ago. It wasn't limited to Firefox,
sometimes it was doing a file search, sometimes it was with the screensaver
running, it would just happen off and on. When it did, I could not SSH into
the machine or switch out of X or anything. I was using kernel 2.6.6-1-i686
on an AMD Athlon. I upgraded using apt to the 2.6.7-1-k7 kernel and the
problem went away. I changed nothing else on the machine. It's been
running for over a week now without a single hiccup. Before, it crashed 3
or 4 times a day. Don't know if that info will help at all.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexandros Papadopoulos [mailto:alex@picturebooks.gr]
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 4:38 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Debian crashes
>
>
> On Monday 26 July 2004 23:49, Tim Raats wrote:
> > Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> > >On Monday 26 July 2004 21:32, Tim Raats wrote:
> > >>Debian crashes on the strangest moments. Im running Sarge with
> > >>kernel 2.4.26. When im surfing the internet with Mozilla Firefox
> > >>0.8, Debian sometimes crashes.
> > >
> > >Quick answer: Use a different version/build of Firefox.
> > >
> > >Now, are you sure the machine is "crashing"? What does that mean?
> > >Can you install the SSH server and login to it from a different
> > >machine, or ping its address, while it seems "crashed"?
> > >
> > >Sometimes a graphical application locks the keyboard and the user
> > >perceives this as a "crash", although it really isn't a
> system crash
> > > - it's the stupid X server not being able to accept input
> from the
> > >devices any more. If for example you leave some program
> with dynamic
> > >output (e.g. top) running in an xterm, do you still see it
> updating
> > >after the system becomes unresponsive?
> > >
> > >Make sure this isn't happening, try to get out of X with
> Ctrl-Alt-F1
> > >and see if you can troubleshoot from there.
> > >
> > >>I dont know what the source of this problem is. Im
> > >>running KDE 3.2.3 also. Please I need help because if I want
> > >>crashes than I should install Window$ again.
> > >
> > >If instability is the only thing that annoys you in M$ products,
> > >then I agree with you; you really should.
> > >
> > >-A
> >
> > I also had this problem also with the version in unstable.
> I have also
> > tried ctrl-alt-F1 and it doesnt switch to tty1.
>
> So, are we to assume that ONLY firefox is giving you grief,
> and no other
> application? In that case, please check the plugins/extentions
> installed, create a new user profile and use that for a while and see
> how it goes.
>
> Although in theory, a single application should not have the
> power to do
> that (lock your physical I/O).
>
> I also assume that you can't try accessing the machine from the
> network... that would be quite enlightening.
>
> -A
>
>
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