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browser and X crash with pipelight, nvidia 340.17, kernel 3.15.5
More of a report than an active problem, since I uninstalled pipelight, still, here's a little story:
I run kernel 3.15.5 and the proprietary NVIDIA driver 340.17, which are patched for VGA passthrough, so my graphics environment is perhaps non-standard. Still everything seemed to be running OK until I decided to have a whack at viewing Amazon videos on the computer, which, like Netflix, apparently wants flash. Well you can't just use flash... anyway, long story short, I downloaded alien's pipelight and installed it. No problems. I tried viewing Amazon, but it never did start, and in fact froze the browser (firefox).
I closed it, but found I had an unkillable version still running (status D), preventing any new version of firefox from starting. Rebooting crashed X, and I had to ssh to reboot the machine. A little more experimentation showed that, even without Amazon's help, that I could only run firefox once, and it would run without issue, but closing it and trying to restart it always resulted in the same unkillable process and crashed X.
I installed chromium from alien's site and it exhibited the same phenomenon, and in fact I could run firefox OR chromium once, then neither would run.
Got rid of pipelight and chromium and firefox is back to normal. I assume that there is a graphics driver conflict* at the heart of this, but since my setup is a little weird, it's probably hard for anyone else to reproduce. Still, I'd thought I'd share in case anyone has seen this kind of behavior before.
[EDIT] * though I checked /var/log/syslog and there is a kernel Oops in there...
Last edited by mostlyharmless; 09-03-2014 at 06:55 PM.
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