Jaunty 64 bit firefox locks up my machine completely

[Michael M. Moore]

On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 16:59 -0500, Sean Carolan wrote:
> > Are you sure it is Firefox causing this, or has it just happened when
> > you've happened to have Firefox running?
> 
> Each time it happens, it coincides immediately with the moment that I
> load a new webpage in Firefox.  I suppose it could be a coincidence,
> but it is a bit odd that I'm loading a link in Firefox every time it
> happens.

What sounds odd to me is that Flash or Firefox would panic your whole
system.  I could see Flash crashing Firefox, I could see Firefox
crashing X, but it sounds very unusual for either of them to bring down
the whole OS.  That's why I think there's something else going on.

> 
> > What kind of hardware do you have?  Do you happen to have a VIA chipset?
> 
> A dell quad-core Intel processor, with an nvidia graphics card and
> desktop effects turned on.
> 
> > Are you using CPU power management?  Which version of Ubuntu?
> 
> No, I'm not using CPU power management.  The Ubuntu version, as I
> mentioned in the original post, is 64 bit Jaunty Jackalope (9.04).
> 
> > You didn't give anyone much information to go on.
> 
> That's because I don't have much information to give.  When the system
> locks up and there is no error message in the log files or kernel dump
> file there's not a whole lot to give.

I just meant hardware information, and I was only asking because I ran
into a problem a while back whereby my system would freeze and become
unresponsive seemingly randomly.  At first, like you, I thought it was
caused by Evolution or Firefox, because I would have either or both open
and usually active every time it happened.  But that was really just a
coincidence.  It turned out to be a hardware bug with my chipset (VIA)
related to CPU throttling.  It took me a long time to figure out what
was going on.

You say your aren't using CPU power management, but Ubuntu Jaunty has it
enabled by default in the kernel.  So did you disable it?

-- 
Michael M.