XFCE locks up on me

[Yorvyk]

On 16/05/13 22:59, David Fletcher wrote:
> I've been recycling an HP Pavilion ze5232 that was given to me rather
> than dump it.
>
> Never attempted this before but I've completely stripped down the
> laptop, fitted WiFi antennas, put it back together then fitted a
> Broadcom based mini PCI card. Ended up putting XP back on to use the
> BIOS flashing tools, installed Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot, and used the
> instructions I found to flash the Broadcom chip with Linux firmware.
>
> Now, the laptop is working with WiFi but it's not got enough horsepower
> to run Unity properly. So, I installed xubuntu-desktop.
>
> XFCE works, except I was using Chrome with ebay to purchase a new
> battery for said laptop. Got to the stage of checkout where it needs the
> PayPal password. I clicked on the top edge of Revelation which was
> underneath Chrome to retrieve the password, end the desktop locked up.
> The mouse cursor changed from the arrow to a hand, carried on moving
> around but everything stopped working.
>
> Only thing I could do was hold the power button in to force the laptop
> to power off and try again.
>
> Logged back in to ebay, tried to pay, the damn thing locked up exactly
> the same way.
>
> So, I guess I'd like to know if anybody else can reproduce this?
>
> Dave
>
Have you tried a different browser?
Does Ctrl+Alt+F1 get you into a terminal when it 'locks up'?


-- 
Steve