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FS#3760 - consistant crashing of firefox and nautilus

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by bennett (bjandrew) - Friday, 13 January 2006, 09:39 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Saturday, 25 March 2006, 23:38 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I am having some pretty weird problems that I can't figure out, also having a hard time figuring out how to produce any useful debuging info. Any help would be appreciated.

I am having consistant behavior that is making gnome unusable. It occurs similar as follows:

1) go to a website, firefox or epiphany will force quit (doesn't matter which)
2) Nautilus will then freeze in the process, and pretty much all of the gnome panels and such lock/disapeer. I havn't had much luck bringing them back.

The other way it happens is Nautilus will consistantly crash when I do something, such as ready from a cd or something, bringing a bunch of stuff down.

Now here is a little more info. Been using arch, and worked great for a while. Then started having this problem, and needed a bigger partition, do did a fresh install with openbox. Things worked great for a few days, so I moved on to gnome.

No go, same problems. If I leave gnome running, firefox CRASHES CONSISTANTLY in OPENBOX as well. So is this maybe like a path problem or something? If I remove all gnome stuff, openbox seems to work fine again.

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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Tuesday, 11 April 2006, 14:34 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 13 January 2006, 11:29 GMT
I can't reproduce this on my system, nautilus and the gecko browsers are rock stable on all my systems.
I guess you might want to do a hardware test. Try running memtest86. Also, try compiling a kernel from source, if that one fails with an internal compiler error, it's your hardware for sure.
Comment by Simon Morgan (sjmorgan) - Friday, 13 January 2006, 21:25 GMT
Try downloading a recent build of the 1.5.0.1 branch at http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/ and see if it helps as it did in my case. You should be able to just extract and run it from your home directory.
Comment by Luke Hoersten (lhoerste) - Sunday, 15 January 2006, 05:43 GMT
I can confirm this problem (both firefox and epiphany freezing) though I experience the problem on different websites and cannot reproduce 100% of the time. This is also a duplicate of this bug:
<a href="http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3313">#3313</a>
Comment by Luke Hoersten (lhoerste) - Sunday, 15 January 2006, 05:44 GMT
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3313

sorry about that.
Comment by bennett (bjandrew) - Sunday, 15 January 2006, 09:10 GMT
I have ran a few hardware tests; all pass without any error. I have also tried the new firefox (1.5.3) which was released today, without sucess. I will try some other builds.

This problem happened after a pacman -Syu and then started occuring after rebooting. I don't remember what was included in the update.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 28 January 2006, 15:55 GMT
What videocard and which driver are you using? Looking through the mozilla bugzilla several people are having this problem with some configurations. Try changing your colordepth to something else. I found some problem reports about nvidia users with 16bpp configurations having the same problem.
Comment by Luke Hoersten (lhoerste) - Saturday, 28 January 2006, 19:06 GMT
Nvidia geforce fx 5700 ultra card with nvidia drivers and Depth 24. Since this effects my nautilus and epiphany as well, could it be a gecko bug or something?
mozilla-firefox-1.5-3
epiphany-1.8.3-3
nautilus-2.12.2-1
(application/octet-stream)    xorg.conf (4.3 KiB)
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 28 January 2006, 19:27 GMT
Try turning RenderAccel off in your xorg.conf.
Comment by Luke Hoersten (lhoerste) - Sunday, 29 January 2006, 06:21 GMT
Looks like renderaccel commented out does the trick for epiphany. Good work Jan.
Comment by Luke Hoersten (lhoerste) - Sunday, 29 January 2006, 06:32 GMT
Oh I spoke too soon. It seems to actually be working a little better but sites with embedded media still freezes the browser. The media actually plays but everything else freezes (including the page content cant even be displayed)
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 02 February 2006, 22:21 GMT
Try upgrading to cairo 1.0.2-3. This version of cairo disables the use of RENDER "Acceleration" for some operations. XRENDER is quite buggy on ATI, especially in Xorg 6.8.
Comment by bennett (bjandrew) - Friday, 03 February 2006, 01:48 GMT
The problem I was originally having has gone away. I am no longer having the crashing problem. I'm not sure what actually did it. Ill take a look when I am back home. Thanks Jan for all your help.
Comment by Luke Hoersten (lhoerste) - Friday, 03 February 2006, 05:31 GMT
epiphany is still crashing for me even with all the lateest from testing.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Saturday, 25 March 2006, 23:38 GMT
how is it now ?

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