X/Firefox Hang regularly

mm3000 · 11-06-2007, 05:54 AM

My X session as well as Firefox hang, regularly and I would like to find out why. I am sure there will be an error report when I have to force X to shutdown I just do not know where to find it. Sometimes it happens when using the google search bar in firefox however most of the time its random. I think the X hang it related to firefox I just do not how how.Any suggestions as to where would be great.
I am using
Slack 12
Firefox 2.0.0.8.
X hangs with KDE, XFCE and enlightment

msantinho · 11-06-2007, 06:08 AM

Quote:

I just do not know where to find it.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

mm3000 · 11-06-2007, 06:15 AM

thank you, will look now

mm3000 · 11-06-2007, 06:58 AM

Could someone please have a look, and see if anything is amiss. I can only see 2 warnings and no errors. I have shorten the output so I can post it.

Code:

_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/dave:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6


(WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Unable to read EDID for display device CRT-0
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 6600 GT (NV43) at PCI:5:0:0 (GPU-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 131072 kBytes
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.43.02.16.00
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce 6600 GT at PCI:5:0:0:
(--) NVIDIA(0):     CRT-0
(--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-0: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: CRT-0
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "1680x1050"
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "1280x1024"
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "1024x768"
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "800x600"
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "640x480"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1680 x 1050
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device CRT-0's EDID; cannot compute DPI
(WW) NVIDIA(0):     from CRT-0's EDID.
(==) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in default
(==) NVIDIA(0): Disabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals.
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) do I need RAC?  No, I don't.

pbhj · 11-06-2007, 01:21 PM

Since upgrade to 12 I've also suffered regular lockups. I'm running on quite old hardware (cue people telling me how new my hardware is, Athlon 1G). I have to do Alt-SysRq-I to kill X and recover. Occasionally I've had to do Alt-SysRq-B (instant (!)reboot too).

Firefox has gradually got hangier and hangier with me. First time on opening when I type an address it hangs for a couple of seconds using 100% CPU ... it doesn't really get better. Opera, Konq don't have same problems so it seems like it's FF ... but I'm so used to using it now and don't want to relearn again.

Anyhoo. That don't help but just to say I've not managed to trace the reason for the X lockups either.

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-06-2007, 02:04 PM

FF without any extension and plugins is actually very stable. But the more extensions and plugins you add, the more likely it is to crash.

Of course, you also have to pick the stable ones.

bryantrv · 11-06-2007, 02:35 PM

I found the Google Desktop extension would cause that behavior for me- but I agree to disable the extensions and re-enable them one by one.

pbhj · 11-06-2007, 04:09 PM

Re: addons/extensions ... yeah ahead of you on that one. Didn't make any difference without any. I'm down to 6 addons now - adblock; web dev toolbar; leak monitor; british dict; remember mismatched dom; screen grab.

To be honest the fox ain't nothing compared to the X-lockups. They are killers!

mm3000 · 11-06-2007, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by pbhj

To be honest the fox ain't nothing compared to the X-lockups. They are killers!

Can't agree with you more on that one.
Will try turning off the extensions and see what happens.

dive · 11-06-2007, 09:14 PM

I found this happening with an incompatible theme so you might want to try with default.

STARHARVEST · 11-06-2007, 09:34 PM

I think I have similar problem with X when it hangs and pretty leds on keyboard are blinking. Any ideas? Kernel panic or what?

mm3000 · 11-06-2007, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by dive

I found this happening with an incompatible theme so you might want to try with default.

It has happened for me when using KDE, XFCE and E17. E17 is the only one I was using anything other then the default theme. Is there anyway that the theme could effect any files that X needs?

Alien_Hominid · 11-07-2007, 12:57 AM

I have had similar problem with ff and greasemonkey addon.

SqdnGuns · 11-07-2007, 01:04 AM

I had the same issue with Slack 12, kernel 2.6.23.1 and the latest Nvidia driver. I have since reverted back to the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755 driver and a custom 2.6.21.5 kernel and have not had one lockup since.

Wrote about it here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rience-595330/

mm3000 · 11-07-2007, 04:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SqdnGuns

I had the same issue with Slack 12, kernel 2.6.23.1 and the latest Nvidia driver. I have since reverted back to the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755 driver and a custom 2.6.21.5 kernel and have not had one lockup since.

Wrote about it here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rience-595330/

Thanks SqdnGuns for the link, will check it out and see if it makes a difference