[Bug 107093] Re: System freezes (possibly Gecko)

[Russ Smith]

Yup - just visited Engadget and the system locked up before the (fairly
complex, apparently) page fully loaded. Telnet right afterwards was
nonresponsive.

My Firefox session had three tabs open, one was a generic Yahoo page,
one was Launchpad "Register" page (since I had to register to make these
posts), one was THIS thread.

That's it - nothing else overtly running on this almost-virgin install
of Ubuntu.

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One note - this machine is running a hardwired-IP wireless networking
connection to a wireless router. The install of the driver for the
wireless card (ancient Linksys wmp54g) was not, of course,
straightforward as documented in numerous 'Net locations. Rather than
use a GUI program to configure the card, etc, I had to hand-edit files
in /etc, etc (...) to set channel number, WEP stuff, and so on.

I do not know if the system is TOTALLY locked up yet - it MAY simply be
the network card driver, for all I know, that has broken due to
something and is keeping other parts of the system from being responsive
(like the GUI and incoming telnet). Something that's, say, really high
priority caught in a wait loop (gack!) or something like that internal
to the driver could exhibit this freeze-symptom, I guess (just throwing
that thought out since I was somewhat dismayed at the amount of surfing
and manual-stuff I had to do to get the wireless connectivity working;
sufficiently so that I simply don't trust it as much as other parts of
the system at this early point in time).

BTW - other than writing a little program that, oh, beeps the bell every
couple seconds I'm not sure how to go about checking to see if this IS a
total system freeze (log files stopping dead suggest it is - that may be
enough "proof").

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System freezes (possibly Gecko)
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