[Bug 404125] [NEW] gray screen for 30 seconds using Firefox -periodically-random time

Launchpad Bug Tracker 404125 at bugs.launchpad.net
Fri Aug 13 15:23:51 UTC 2010


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Occurs not too often but often enough to make this extremely irritating,
maybe once during every online session, maybe every few hours.  I have
counted and it seems to be gray for about 30 seconds with no input
processed from keyboard during this time. When it returns, everything
seems fine.

No way to systematically reproduce problem. I just have to go online and
more often than not, it will occur - maybe in 30 minutes or a couple of
hours, time lapse varies.  99% of the time, I have the AC adapter
plugged in so I can't say if this occurs when battery is engaged.  No
other application except Firefox running.

I have changed power settings at the suggestion of system76 support personnel.  Latest settings before this occurred just today were:
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SETTINGS:

with laptop plugged in using ac adapter:

POWER MANAGEMENT PREFERENCES ("System" pulldown options)

ON AC POWER (tab)

put computer to sleep when inactive for 39 minutes

put display to sleep when inactive for 31 minutes
 
set display brightness to:  dim display when idle - not checked

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Last occurrance was when I was actively browsing http://www.edmunds.com.
Since I am mostly online and always using Firefox,   I can't say for
sure if it occurs when I am offline.

Seem to have had problem almost (can't be sure) from the beginning of
ownership - purchased in December 2008.

When I do a "Help" from pull down menu of Firefox and click on "about",
I get a blank Firefox screen so can't say what version. I'll try to
update this report after I log out of this bug report application.  It
may be causing some kind of interference so I can't find out what
version.

When I go to add/remove applications and look for "compiz",  options for
"compiz" are not checked.  But when I do a "top", I see "compiz.real" in
the list.

My system:
System76 laptop- model PANP4N - Pangolin Performance
Ubuntu 8.10(Intrepid Ibex) 
Gnome desktop-vers 2.24.1
Core2 Duo P8600 2.40GHz 1066MHz FSB 3MB L2 (25 Watt)
RAM:4 GB - DDR2 800MHz - 2 DIMMs 
HardDrive:320 GB 7200 RPM SATA II

cut and paste of output from random top command (not while screen is greyed out)
5734 root      20   0  164m  57m  13m S    3  1.4   5:08.65 Xorg               
 7037 alice     20   0  647m 167m  26m S    2  4.2   3:51.87 firefox            
 5305 chipcard  20   0 27580 1820 1088 S    1  0.0   0:59.43 chipcardd4         
  648 alice     20   0 19100 1328  988 R    1  0.0   0:00.02 top                
 6437 alice     20   0  276m  51m  31m S    1  1.3   1:17.27 compiz.real        
32033 alice     20   0  272m  28m  13m R    1  0.7   0:01.16 gnome-terminal     
    1 root      20   0  4100  904  612 S    0  0.0   0:00.88 init               
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0        
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.22 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    6 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1        
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.28 ksoftirqd/1        
    8 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1         
    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.18 events/0           
   10 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.10 events/1           
   11 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 khelper            

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Updated to add :
Firefox 3.0.12

Also, problem just occurred and I was able to open a terminal window.
Next time this happens, I will post results of a top command DURING the
problem, I hope.  Stay tuned.

===============================
updated July 26, 2009 8:41 am

Was able to do a top command in a terminal session while screen was
greyed out - results are below for "top -b -n3" command --

top - 21:06:06 up  3:21,  2 users,  load average: 0.34, 0.24, 0.14
Tasks: 127 total,   2 running, 125 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  3.5%us,  1.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 94.1%id,  0.6%wa,  0.2%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   4050800k total,  1019744k used,  3031056k free,    24472k buffers
Swap:  3858388k total,        0k used,  3858388k free,   323500k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
16336 alice     20   0 18964 1212  888 R    4  0.0   0:00.02 top                
    1 root      20   0  4100  904  612 S    0  0.0   0:00.88 init               
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0        
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.50 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.26 events/0           
   11 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper            
   49 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/0      
   52 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/0          
   55 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.08 kacpid             
   56 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.04 kacpi_notify       
  146 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 cqueue             
  150 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.06 kseriod            
  199 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush            
  200 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.12 pdflush            
  201 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd0            
  247 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0              
 1209 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd      
 1213 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd              
 1438 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/0              
 1440 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_aux            
 2087 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0          
 2090 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:02.10 scsi_eh_1          
 2091 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_2          
 2092 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_3          
 2094 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_4          
 2095 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_5          
 2300 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.06 kjournald          
 2475 root      16  -4 17296 1340  384 S    0  0.0   0:17.40 udevd              
 2901 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kpsmoused          
 2923 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kmmcd              
 3034 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.08 iwlagn             
 3035 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.12 phy0               
 4373 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.18 kjournald          
 4641 root      20   0  3940  596  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4642 root      20   0  3940  600  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4647 root      20   0  3940  596  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4648 root      20   0  3940  600  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4649 root      20   0  3940  600  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4841 root      20   0  4996 1804  560 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 acpid              
 4878 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.56 kondemand/0        
 4962 syslog    20   0 12364  740  564 S    0  0.0   0:00.08 syslogd            
 5012 root      20   0  8204  612  492 S    0  0.0   0:00.12 dd                 
 5014 klog      20   0  7856 4468  448 S    0  0.1   0:00.16 klogd              
 5037 messageb  20   0 21700 1472  744 S    0  0.0   0:01.10 dbus-daemon        
 5059 avahi     20   0 29800 1556 1260 S    0  0.0   0:00.04 avahi-daemon       
 5060 avahi     20   0 29680  520  288 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 avahi-daemon       
 5095 root      20   0 72932 2752 1796 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 cupsd              
 5260 chipcard  20   0 27324  772  312 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 chipcardd4         
 5261 chipcard  20   0 27576 1792 1088 S    0  0.0   1:27.63 chipcardd4         
 5342 haldaemo  20   0 36300 4968 3864 S    0  0.1   0:02.26 hald               
 5345 root      20   0  106m 2736 1832 S    0  0.1   0:00.04 console-kit-dae    
 5419 root      20   0 17932 1240 1016 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 hald-runner        
 5438 root      20   0 20048 1168  984 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 hald-addon-inpu    
 5448 root      20   0 20060 1144  968 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 hald-addon-cpuf    
 5449 haldaemo  20   0 16752 1040  876 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 hald-addon-acpi    
 5479 root      20   0 20052 1184  996 S    0  0.0   0:01.04 hald-addon-stor    
 5520 root      20   0 30364 1672 1380 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 bluetoothd         
 5526 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 btaddconn          
 5527 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 btdelconn          
 5566 root      10 -10     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 krfcommd           
 5588 root      20   0 63000 2980 2284 S    0  0.1   0:01.20 NetworkManager     
 5597 root      20   0 66796 3348 2644 S    0  0.1   0:00.12 nm-system-setti    
 5598 root      20   0 21088 2324 1876 S    0  0.1   0:00.24 wpa_supplicant     
 5644 root      20   0  115m 1996 1040 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 gdm                
 5647 root      20   0  133m 3488 2336 S    0  0.1   0:00.04 gdm                
 5652 root      20   0  152m  56m  13m S    0  1.4   4:07.86 Xorg               
 5724 root      20   0 35384 1236  932 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 system-tools-ba    
 5791 daemon    20   0 16512  448  296 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 atd                
 5819 root      20   0 19920 1132  856 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 cron               
 5974 root      20   0  3940  600  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 5998 alice     20   0  144m 6656 5156 S    0  0.2   0:00.18 x-session-manag    
 6148 alice     20   0 35916  684  268 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 ssh-agent          
 6151 alice     20   0 25868  708  436 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 dbus-launch        
 6152 alice     20   0 21772 1324  580 S    0  0.0   0:00.18 dbus-daemon        
 6178 alice     20   0  159m 4768 3344 S    0  0.1   0:01.50 pulseaudio         
 6199 alice     20   0 61640 2984 2372 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 gconf-helper       
 6201 alice     20   0 46552 6500 2312 S    0  0.2   0:02.38 gconfd-2           
 6212 alice     20   0  139m 7192 4764 S    0  0.2   0:00.16 seahorse-agent     
 6222 alice     20   0  113m 4176 3328 S    0  0.1   0:00.02 gnome-keyring-d    
 6227 alice     20   0  132m 2528 1876 S    0  0.1   0:00.40 gnome-keyring-d    
 6235 alice     20   0  270m  16m 8900 S    0  0.4   0:01.62 gnome-settings-    
 6236 alice     20   0  4020  636  496 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 compiz             
 6308 alice     20   0 44916 2364 1908 S    0  0.1   0:00.02 gvfsd              
 6328 alice     20   0 62428 2308 1688 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 gvfs-fuse-daemo    
 6390 alice     20   0  271m  51m  31m S    0  1.3   1:51.89 compiz.real        
 6395 alice     20   0  191m 6340 4384 S    0  0.2   0:05.10 gnome-screensav    
 6461 alice     20   0  4020  572  476 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 sh                 
 6462 alice     20   0  4020  600  488 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 compiz-decorato    
 6489 alice     20   0  143m  13m 7960 S    0  0.4   0:01.64 gtk-window-deco    
 6508 alice     20   0  290m  25m  14m S    0  0.7   0:04.40 gnome-panel        
 6510 alice     20   0  420m  35m  16m S    0  0.9   0:02.45 nautilus           
 6512 alice     20   0  148m 4048 2916 S    0  0.1   0:00.20 bonobo-activati    
 6531 alice     20   0 39116 3048 2088 S    0  0.1   0:00.10 gvfs-hal-volume    
 6533 alice     20   0 36900 2624 1676 S    0  0.1   0:00.02 gvfs-gphoto2-vo    
 6539 alice     20   0  190m  12m 8256 S    0  0.3   0:01.14 trashapplet        

 6541 alice     20   0 63660 3020 2352 S    0  0.1   0:00.74 gvfsd-trash        
 6551 alice     20   0 44916 2396 1976 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 gvfsd-burn         
 6559 alice     20   0  202m  16m 9.9m S    0  0.4   0:00.28 fast-user-switc    
 6564 alice     20   0  240m  19m  11m S    0  0.5   0:00.22 mixer_applet2      
 6595 alice     20   0  120m 6380 5024 S    0  0.2   0:00.02 tracker-applet     
 6596 alice     20   0  120m 6688 5284 S    0  0.2   0:00.06 bluetooth-apple    
 6597 alice     39  19  137m  10m 2400 S    0  0.3   0:00.09 trackerd           
 6598 alice     20   0  207m  17m  10m S    0  0.4   0:00.42 update-notifier    
 6602 alice     20   0  204m  17m 8408 S    0  0.4   0:00.30 python             
 6605 alice     20   0  378m  12m 9772 S    0  0.3   0:00.12 evolution-alarm    
 6606 alice     20   0  185m  21m  10m S    0  0.6   0:01.62 nm-applet          
 6611 alice     20   0  208m  10m 6604 S    0  0.3   0:00.38 gnome-power-man    
 6671 alice     20   0  301m  12m 9640 S    0  0.3   0:00.10 evolution-excha    
 6711 alice     20   0  301m 8884 6580 S    0  0.2   0:00.06 evolution-data-    
 7457 alice     20   0  155m  16m 8356 S    0  0.4   0:00.72 notification-da    
 8145 alice     20   0  692m 284m  26m S    0  7.2   4:12.38 firefox            
15698 alice     20   0 67768  13m 7788 R    0  0.3   0:01.54 npviewer.bin       
16232 alice     20   0  293m  30m  13m S    0  0.8   0:00.50 gnome-terminal     
16243 alice     20   0 19452  876  712 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 gnome-pty-helpe    
16244 alice     20   0 20600 3476 1536 S    0  0.1   0:00.10 bash               
25697 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 migration/1        
25698 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 ksoftirqd/1        
25699 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1         
25700 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.20 kondemand/1        
25701 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/1              
25702 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/1              
25703 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/1          
25704 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/1      
25705 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 events/1           
25922 root      20   0  6480 1076  908 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 dhclient           


top - 21:06:09 up  3:21,  2 users,  load average: 0.34, 0.24, 0.14
Tasks: 126 total,   1 running, 125 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  4.4%us,  1.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 94.2%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   4050800k total,  1012372k used,  3038428k free,    24472k buffers
Swap:  3858388k total,        0k used,  3858388k free,   323284k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 6390 alice     20   0  271m  51m  31m S    7  1.3   1:52.10 compiz.real        
 5652 root      20   0  152m  56m  13m S    3  1.4   4:07.94 Xorg               
 8145 alice     20   0  692m 284m  26m S    2  7.2   4:12.44 firefox            
 5261 chipcard  20   0 27576 1792 1088 S    1  0.0   1:27.66 chipcardd4         
 6235 alice     20   0  270m  16m 8900 S    1  0.4   0:01.64 gnome-settings-    
 6510 alice     20   0  420m  35m  16m S    1  0.9   0:02.47 nautilus           
16336 alice     20   0 19100 1316  980 R    1  0.0   0:00.04 top                
    1 root      20   0  4100  904  612 S    0  0.0   0:00.88 init               
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0        
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.50 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.26 events/0           
   11 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper            
   49 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/0      
   52 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/0          
   55 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.08 kacpid             
   56 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.04 kacpi_notify       
  146 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 cqueue             
  150 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.06 kseriod            
  199 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush            
  200 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.12 pdflush            
  201 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd0            
  247 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0              
 1209 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd      
 1213 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd              
 1438 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/0              
 1440 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_aux            
 2087 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0          
 2090 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:02.10 scsi_eh_1          
 2091 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_2          
 2092 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_3          
 2094 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_4          
 2095 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_5          
 2300 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.06 kjournald          
 2475 root      16  -4 17296 1340  384 S    0  0.0   0:17.40 udevd              
 2901 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kpsmoused          
 2923 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kmmcd              
 3034 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.08 iwlagn             
 3035 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.12 phy0               
 4373 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.18 kjournald          
 4641 root      20   0  3940  596  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4642 root      20   0  3940  600  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4647 root      20   0  3940  596  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4648 root      20   0  3940  600  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4649 root      20   0  3940  600  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4841 root      20   0  4996 1804  560 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 acpid              
 4878 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.56 kondemand/0        
 4962 syslog    20   0 12364  740  564 S    0  0.0   0:00.08 syslogd            
 5012 root      20   0  8204  612  492 S    0  0.0   0:00.12 dd                 
 5014 klog      20   0  7856 4468  448 S    0  0.1   0:00.16 klogd              
 5037 messageb  20   0 21700 1472  744 S    0  0.0   0:01.10 dbus-daemon        
 5059 avahi     20   0 29800 1556 1260 S    0  0.0   0:00.04 avahi-daemon       
 5060 avahi     20   0 29680  520  288 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 avahi-daemon       
 5095 root      20   0 72932 2752 1796 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 cupsd              
 5260 chipcard  20   0 27324  772  312 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 chipcardd4         
 5342 haldaemo  20   0 36300 4968 3864 S    0  0.1   0:02.26 hald               
 5345 root      20   0  106m 2736 1832 S    0  0.1   0:00.04 console-kit-dae    
 5419 root      20   0 17932 1240 1016 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 hald-runner        
 5438 root      20   0 20048 1168  984 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 hald-addon-inpu    
 5448 root      20   0 20060 1144  968 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 hald-addon-cpuf    
 5449 haldaemo  20   0 16752 1040  876 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 hald-addon-acpi    
 5479 root      20   0 20052 1184  996 S    0  0.0   0:01.04 hald-addon-stor    
 5520 root      20   0 30364 1672 1380 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 bluetoothd         
 5526 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 btaddconn          
 5527 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 btdelconn          
 5566 root      10 -10     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 krfcommd           
 5588 root      20   0 63000 2980 2284 S    0  0.1   0:01.20 NetworkManager     
 5597 root      20   0 66796 3348 2644 S    0  0.1   0:00.12 nm-system-setti    
 5598 root      20   0 21088 2324 1876 S    0  0.1   0:00.24 wpa_supplicant     
 5644 root      20   0  115m 1996 1040 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 gdm                
 5647 root      20   0  133m 3488 2336 S    0  0.1   0:00.04 gdm                
 5724 root      20   0 35384 1236  932 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 system-tools-ba    
 5791 daemon    20   0 16512  448  296 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 atd                
 5819 root      20   0 19920 1132  856 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 cron               
 5974 root      20   0  3940  600  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 5998 alice     20   0  144m 6656 5156 S    0  0.2   0:00.18 x-session-manag    
 6148 alice     20   0 35916  684  268 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 ssh-agent          
 6151 alice     20   0 25868  708  436 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 dbus-launch        
 6152 alice     20   0 21772 1324  580 S    0  0.0   0:00.18 dbus-daemon        
 6178 alice     20   0  159m 4768 3344 S    0  0.1   0:01.50 pulseaudio         
 6199 alice     20   0 61640 2984 2372 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 gconf-helper       
 6201 alice     20   0 46552 6500 2312 S    0  0.2   0:02.38 gconfd-2           
 6212 alice     20   0  139m 7192 4764 S    0  0.2   0:00.16 seahorse-agent     
 6222 alice     20   0  113m 4176 3328 S    0  0.1   0:00.02 gnome-keyring-d    
 6227 alice     20   0  132m 2528 1876 S    0  0.1   0:00.40 gnome-keyring-d    
 6236 alice     20   0  4020  636  496 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 compiz             
 6308 alice     20   0 44916 2364 1908 S    0  0.1   0:00.02 gvfsd              
 6328 alice     20   0 62428 2308 1688 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 gvfs-fuse-daemo    
 6395 alice     20   0  191m 6340 4384 S    0  0.2   0:05.10 gnome-screensav    
 6461 alice     20   0  4020  572  476 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 sh                 
 6462 alice     20   0  4020  600  488 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 compiz-decorato    
 6489 alice     20   0  143m  13m 7960 S    0  0.4   0:01.64 gtk-window-deco    
 6508 alice     20   0  290m  25m  14m S    0  0.7   0:04.40 gnome-panel        
 6512 alice     20   0  148m 4048 2916 S    0  0.1   0:00.20 bonobo-activati    
 6531 alice     20   0 39116 3048 2088 S    0  0.1   0:00.10 gvfs-hal-volume    
 6533 alice     20   0 36900 2624 1676 S    0  0.1   0:00.02 gvfs-gphoto2-vo    
 6539 alice     20   0  190m  12m 8256 S    0  0.3   0:01.14 trashapplet        
 6541 alice     20   0 63660 3020 2352 S    0  0.1   0:00.74 gvfsd-trash        
 6551 alice     20   0 44916 2396 1976 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 gvfsd-burn         
 6559 alice     20   0  202m  16m 9.9m S    0  0.4   0:00.28 fast-user-switc    
 6564 alice     20   0  240m  19m  11m S    0  0.5   0:00.22 mixer_applet2      
 6595 alice     20   0  120m 6380 5024 S    0  0.2   0:00.02 tracker-applet     
 6596 alice     20   0  120m 6688 5284 S    0  0.2   0:00.06 bluetooth-apple    
 6597 alice     39  19  137m  10m 2400 S    0  0.3   0:00.09 trackerd           
 6598 alice     20   0  207m  17m  10m S    0  0.4   0:00.42 update-notifier    
 6602 alice     20   0  204m  17m 8408 S    0  0.4   0:00.30 python             
 6605 alice     20   0  378m  12m 9772 S    0  0.3   0:00.12 evolution-alarm    
 6606 alice     20   0  185m  21m  10m S    0  0.6   0:01.62 nm-applet          
 6611 alice     20   0  208m  10m 6604 S    0  0.3   0:00.38 gnome-power-man    
 6671 alice     20   0  301m  12m 9640 S    0  0.3   0:00.10 evolution-excha    
 6711 alice     20   0  301m 8884 6580 S    0  0.2   0:00.06 evolution-data-    
 7457 alice     20   0  155m  16m 8356 S    0  0.4   0:00.72 notification-da    
16232 alice     20   0  293m  30m  13m S    0  0.8   0:00.50 gnome-terminal     
16243 alice     20   0 19452  876  712 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 gnome-pty-helpe    
16244 alice     20   0 20600 3476 1536 S    0  0.1   0:00.10 bash               
25697 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 migration/1        
25698 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 ksoftirqd/1        
25699 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1         
25700 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.20 kondemand/1        
25701 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/1              
25702 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/1              
25703 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/1          
25704 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/1      
25705 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 events/1           
25922 root      20   0  6480 1076  908 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 dhclient           


top - 21:06:12 up  3:21,  2 users,  load average: 0.32, 0.24, 0.14
Tasks: 126 total,   1 running, 125 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  2.0%us,  1.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 95.8%id,  0.8%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   4050800k total,  1012700k used,  3038100k free,    24480k buffers
Swap:  3858388k total,        0k used,  3858388k free,   323296k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 6390 alice     20   0  271m  51m  31m S    5  1.3   1:52.24 compiz.real        
 5261 chipcard  20   0 27576 1792 1088 S    1  0.0   1:27.69 chipcardd4         
 2475 root      16  -4 17296 1340  384 S    1  0.0   0:17.42 udevd              
 5652 root      20   0  152m  56m  13m S    0  1.4   4:07.95 Xorg               
    1 root      20   0  4100  904  612 S    0  0.0   0:00.88 init               
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0        
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.50 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.26 events/0           
   11 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper            
   49 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/0      
   52 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/0          
   55 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.08 kacpid             
   56 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.04 kacpi_notify       
  146 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 cqueue             
  150 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.06 kseriod            
  199 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush            
  200 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.12 pdflush            
  201 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd0            
  247 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0              
 1209 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd      
 1213 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd              
 1438 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/0              
 1440 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_aux            
 2087 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0          
 2090 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:02.10 scsi_eh_1          
 2091 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_2          
 2092 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_3          
 2094 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_4          
 2095 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_5          
 2300 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.06 kjournald          
 2901 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kpsmoused          
 2923 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kmmcd              
 3034 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.08 iwlagn             
 3035 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.12 phy0               
 4373 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.18 kjournald          
 4641 root      20   0  3940  596  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4642 root      20   0  3940  600  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4647 root      20   0  3940  596  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4648 root      20   0  3940  600  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4649 root      20   0  3940  600  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 4841 root      20   0  4996 1804  560 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 acpid              
 4878 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.56 kondemand/0        
 4962 syslog    20   0 12364  740  564 S    0  0.0   0:00.08 syslogd            
 5012 root      20   0  8204  612  492 S    0  0.0   0:00.12 dd                 
 5014 klog      20   0  7856 4468  448 S    0  0.1   0:00.16 klogd              
 5037 messageb  20   0 21700 1472  744 S    0  0.0   0:01.10 dbus-daemon        
 5059 avahi     20   0 29800 1556 1260 S    0  0.0   0:00.04 avahi-daemon       
 5060 avahi     20   0 29680  520  288 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 avahi-daemon       
 5095 root      20   0 72932 2752 1796 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 cupsd              
 5260 chipcard  20   0 27324  772  312 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 chipcardd4         
 5342 haldaemo  20   0 36300 4968 3864 S    0  0.1   0:02.26 hald               
 5345 root      20   0  106m 2736 1832 S    0  0.1   0:00.04 console-kit-dae    
 5419 root      20   0 17932 1240 1016 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 hald-runner        
 5438 root      20   0 20048 1168  984 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 hald-addon-inpu    
 5448 root      20   0 20060 1144  968 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 hald-addon-cpuf    
 5449 haldaemo  20   0 16752 1040  876 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 hald-addon-acpi    
 5479 root      20   0 20052 1184  996 S    0  0.0   0:01.04 hald-addon-stor    
 5520 root      20   0 30364 1672 1380 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 bluetoothd         
 5526 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 btaddconn          
 5527 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 btdelconn          
 5566 root      10 -10     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 krfcommd           
 5588 root      20   0 63000 2980 2284 S    0  0.1   0:01.20 NetworkManager     
 5597 root      20   0 66796 3348 2644 S    0  0.1   0:00.12 nm-system-setti    
 5598 root      20   0 21088 2324 1876 S    0  0.1   0:00.24 wpa_supplicant     
 5644 root      20   0  115m 1996 1040 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 gdm                
 5647 root      20   0  133m 3488 2336 S    0  0.1   0:00.04 gdm                
 5724 root      20   0 35384 1236  932 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 system-tools-ba    
 5791 daemon    20   0 16512  448  296 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 atd                
 5819 root      20   0 19920 1132  856 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 cron               
 5974 root      20   0  3940  600  504 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 getty              
 5998 alice     20   0  144m 6656 5156 S    0  0.2   0:00.18 x-session-manag    
 6148 alice     20   0 35916  684  268 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 ssh-agent          
 6151 alice     20   0 25868  708  436 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 dbus-launch        
 6152 alice     20   0 21772 1324  580 S    0  0.0   0:00.18 dbus-daemon        
 6178 alice     20   0  159m 4768 3344 S    0  0.1   0:01.50 pulseaudio         
 6199 alice     20   0 61640 2984 2372 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 gconf-helper       
 6201 alice     20   0 46552 6500 2312 S    0  0.2   0:02.38 gconfd-2           
 6212 alice     20   0  139m 7192 4764 S    0  0.2   0:00.16 seahorse-agent     
 6222 alice     20   0  113m 4176 3328 S    0  0.1   0:00.02 gnome-keyring-d    
 6227 alice     20   0  132m 2528 1876 S    0  0.1   0:00.40 gnome-keyring-d    
 6235 alice     20   0  270m  16m 8900 S    0  0.4   0:01.64 gnome-settings-    
 6236 alice     20   0  4020  636  496 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 compiz             
 6308 alice     20   0 44916 2364 1908 S    0  0.1   0:00.02 gvfsd              
 6328 alice     20   0 62428 2308 1688 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 gvfs-fuse-daemo    
 6395 alice     20   0  191m 6340 4384 S    0  0.2   0:05.10 gnome-screensav    
 6461 alice     20   0  4020  572  476 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 sh                 
 6462 alice     20   0  4020  600  488 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 compiz-decorato    
 6489 alice     20   0  143m  13m 7960 S    0  0.4   0:01.64 gtk-window-deco    
 6508 alice     20   0  290m  25m  14m S    0  0.7   0:04.40 gnome-panel        
 6510 alice     20   0  420m  35m  16m S    0  0.9   0:02.47 nautilus           
 6512 alice     20   0  148m 4048 2916 S    0  0.1   0:00.20 bonobo-activati    
 6531 alice     20   0 39116 3048 2088 S    0  0.1   0:00.10 gvfs-hal-volume    
 6533 alice     20   0 36900 2624 1676 S    0  0.1   0:00.02 gvfs-gphoto2-vo    
 6539 alice     20   0  190m  12m 8256 S    0  0.3   0:01.14 trashapplet        
 6541 alice     20   0 63660 3020 2352 S    0  0.1   0:00.74 gvfsd-trash        
 6551 alice     20   0 44916 2396 1976 S    0  0.1   0:00.00 gvfsd-burn         
 6559 alice     20   0  202m  16m 9.9m S    0  0.4   0:00.28 fast-user-switc    
 6564 alice     20   0  240m  19m  11m S    0  0.5   0:00.22 mixer_applet2      
 6595 alice     20   0  120m 6380 5024 S    0  0.2   0:00.02 tracker-applet     
 6596 alice     20   0  120m 6688 5284 S    0  0.2   0:00.06 bluetooth-apple    
 6597 alice     39  19  137m  10m 2400 S    0  0.3   0:00.09 trackerd           
 6598 alice     20   0  207m  17m  10m S    0  0.4   0:00.42 update-notifier    
 6602 alice     20   0  204m  17m 8408 S    0  0.4   0:00.30 python             
 6605 alice     20   0  378m  12m 9772 S    0  0.3   0:00.12 evolution-alarm    
 6606 alice     20   0  185m  21m  10m S    0  0.6   0:01.62 nm-applet          
 6611 alice     20   0  208m  10m 6604 S    0  0.3   0:00.38 gnome-power-man    
 6671 alice     20   0  301m  12m 9640 S    0  0.3   0:00.10 evolution-excha    
 6711 alice     20   0  301m 8884 6580 S    0  0.2   0:00.06 evolution-data-    
 7457 alice     20   0  155m  16m 8356 S    0  0.4   0:00.72 notification-da    
 8145 alice     20   0  692m 284m  26m S    0  7.2   4:12.44 firefox            
16232 alice     20   0  293m  30m  13m S    0  0.8   0:00.50 gnome-terminal     
16243 alice     20   0 19452  876  712 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 gnome-pty-helpe    
16244 alice     20   0 20600 3476 1536 S    0  0.1   0:00.10 bash               
16336 alice     20   0 19100 1316  980 R    0  0.0   0:00.04 top                
25697 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 migration/1        
25698 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 ksoftirqd/1        
25699 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1         
25700 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.20 kondemand/1        
25701 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/1              
25702 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/1              
25703 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/1          
25704 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/1      
25705 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 events/1           
25922 root      20   0  6480 1076  908 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 dhclient         

myComments - apparently - Firefox doesn't accept keyboard input while
browser screen is greyed out but terminal session does.  Apologies if
this is too long.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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gray screen for 30 seconds using Firefox -periodically-random time
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404125
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