Re: system freezes with firefox on athlon64
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 09:42 am, David Garamond wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm having a repeatable system freezes with Firefox 1.0.4 on my new
> system (Athlon64 3000+, Abit AV8, Sarge/Sid mix). By freeze I mean
> screen, keyboard, and mouse pointer suddenly stop responding (and no
> lights at all on the keyboard LEDs, even when Caps Lock etc are
> pressed). If some audio happens to be playing (e.g. juk) it will
> continue to play until the current song is finished. I will then have to
> press the Reset button to recover.
I am curious. It seems you can reproduce the problem. Is it X that is hanging.
Can you ssh into your box, run top and see if XFree86 is running 99.9 % of
cpu usage? just an idea - also what is your video card on the machine?
If so, try to kill -9 the XFree86 process and then you can do remote reboot.
let me know what you find.
mitchell
>
> This happens only if I visit the administration panel of a certain
> internal website, which uses PHPBB2 (a popular PHP-based forum web app).
> Sometimes I can open several pages before the system freezes, but
> sometimes it freezes right after I press Enter in the address bar.
>
> And it happens *every* time.
>
> Other websites do not cause crashes. The abovementioned website doesn't
> cause crashes when opened using other browsers like Opera.
>
> At first I thought this is caused by some kernel modules like
> via82cxxx_audio or Bestcrypt. But removing them still causes crashes.
>
> I've tried several kernels, from
> 2.4.27-2-{686,686-smp,k7,k7-smp,amd64-k8,amd64-k8-smp}, 2.6.8 kernels,
> and 2.6.11 kernels.
>
> Any pointer on how to pinpoint the cause of the problem? My system seems
> to be stable otherwise (except when using 2.6, sometimes kernel panic
> happens, but it is really stable otherwise when using 2.4).
> /var/log/messages doesn't say anything related to the crashes. Btw, my
> libc6 version is 2.3.2.ds1-22.
>
> Regards,
> dave
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