Bug 129477 - Firefox locks up system
Summary: Firefox locks up system
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Kernel (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: i686 SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Normal
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Reported: 2005-10-19 18:43 UTC by Jason Sypolt
Modified: 2005-10-29 02:16 UTC (History)
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Description Jason Sypolt 2005-10-19 18:43:13 UTC
Just installed SUSE 10.0 and it locks up on a regular basis when Firefox is
running. By "locks up" I mean the system becomes unresponsive to keyboard input
(I can still move the mouse cursor, but can't click on anything). Can't switch
to another terminal, can't kill X, etc. I've had top running to try and catch
anything unusual when this happens, but no luck so far. Also, nothing unusual
shows up in the logs. 

I've downloaded all of the patches/updates and am using a geforce2 mx with
nvidia driver. I've tried passing various acpi and apm options to the kernel
through grub to disable them and that makes no difference either. 

I can reproduce this reliably. I open firefox and go to www.netbeans.org. When
the page finishes loading, I right-click Firefox's titlebar and select Minimize.
I then click on the Firefox icon in my window list to bring it back up and
everything freezes.
Comment 1 Robert O'Callahan 2005-10-21 01:47:13 UTC
Can you switch to another virtual terminal with e.g. ctrl-alt-F2, or is it completely locked up?
Comment 2 Jason Sypolt 2005-10-21 13:11:39 UTC
It's totally locked up. This also happened when I was using Konquereor last night instead of Firefox. I was browsing through opensuse.org and attempting to download the ISOs for 10.1.
Comment 3 Robert O'Callahan 2005-10-25 20:07:09 UTC
Not a Firefox bug, then.
Comment 4 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-10-26 05:04:08 UTC
Only a guess, but please test with the OSS nv driver.
Comment 5 Jason Sypolt 2005-10-29 02:16:00 UTC
Looks like that worked. It has been up for days now.