On Sunday, January 23, 2011 21:56 dwgallien's reply (fixed the top-posting mess) wrote:
Hi,
I have installed OpenSuse 11.3 on two machines. The first has been running for almost a month now with no problems. The second hangs everytime I have Firefox or Chrome running. Sometimes I can browse the web for a few minutes before it hangs other times it just hangs on loading a default set of tabs. Both are using KDE as the window manager. Both machines previously had KDE3.? on them and now have KDE4. The machine that now hangs had some trouble with migrating the KDE3 settings to KDE4. When the machine hangs I even try CTRL-ALT-DEL and CTRL-ALT-2 but there is no response; needs a hard reset.
If I run the Kernel in failsafe mode then the machine does not hang; with both KDE normal or failsafe mode. If I run the Kernel in normal mode and either KDE normal or failsafe mode with Firefox or Chrome running the system will hang. If I run the Kernel in normal mode and KDE in normal mode then browse the web with Konqueror there was no problem.
What type of information should I collect to find the problem? I would really like to fix this.
I was thinking of deleting the .mozilla directory and re build from scratch, except for my bookmark file.
I think this is a mozilla browser problem but why does it hang the Kernel?
Thank you,
Pls take this with a large grain of salt, my memory may be faulty . . .
Are you using the nvidia proprietary driver? IIRC there have been issues reported with the repo driver and the stock kernel that in particular affected performance in Firefox and possibly Plasma (I don't recall anything reported re Chrome, however). The solution that some found to work was upgrading the kernel from :HEAD and then manually installing the newer nvidia driver downloaded from their site (which means you should first uninstall the driver from the repo via YaST or zypper). With some searching through this list you should easily find the thread(s) discussing this issue.
Good luck.
Btw, you should be able to re-install Firefox without any problem just renaming .mozilla, and then migrating back your bookmarks file to the newly created .mozilla. The bookmarks is just an xml file.
The unfortunate thing about downloading a whole new kernel is, it can't be done very easily, if at all, when one is on dial-up, so the 'fix' is pretty much non-existent. This kind of screw-up should not have been allowed to go into production until it was fixed first. Now those of us who *are* stuck on dial-up with no alternative have to fret over *when* the system is going to freeze up on us (or when it will do it again....and again...ad nauseum). It's happened to me already 4 times and there's no telling when it's going to happen, it just does it. BTW, it's doing it with Seamonkey too, not just Firefox. I use Seamonkey almost exclusively on my KDE. Hard rebooting is going to tear up some hard drives eventually, and it's something I can barely afford as is. This 'problem' of freezing up in 11.3, is leaving a very bad taste and I've been using SuSE since 7.3. :( -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org