Arch, maybe others running nouveau.
Firefox-Thunderbird launch freezes the 64 bit machines I have since kernel 3.5, not the 32 bit machines. No keyboard-mouse, scrambled display, can't ssh into. Needs hard reset. I've stopped using both for now. It's a nouveau problem.
Code:
uname -a
Linux 3.7.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 11 20:20:58 EET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Code:
pacman -Ss nouveau
extra/nouveau-dri 9.0.2-1 [installed]
Mesa classic DRI + Gallium3D drivers for Nouveau
extra/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.6-1 (xorg-drivers xorg) [installed]
Code:
pacman -Ss firefox
extra/firefox 18.0.2-1 [installed]
Code:
free -h
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1.8G 332M 1.5G 0B 36M 138M
Code:
lspci -nn -k | grep -A 2 VGA
+00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] [10de:03d6] (rev a2)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83a4]
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Can't give you an error when run from shell because Firefox-Thunderbird launch is an immediate freeze. I really can't see anything in the xorg logs.
I found a temporary fix to the freezing.
Code:
sudo mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/nouveau_vieux_dri.so /usr/lib/xorg/modles/dri/DISABLE_nouveau_vieux_dri.so
That's 3D. Thunderbird now works, so does Firefox, but it complains about a security componet missing.
Anyone have any other answers? I could switch to nvidia's drivers I guess.
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=156690
