219004 - Intermittant crashes which lock up the entire system.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Ken Meyer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

I have had multiple crashes when using Mozilla that lock up the entire system.
Most recently the crash occured when I was loading the page at www.inhomedoc.com
and, while the animated gif was still loading, I tried to load another page from
by toolbar. The entire system froze.

The time before that, I had the little icon appear which indicates that a cookie
has been stored or modified (how do I get rid of that thing, BTW?). When I
clicked on it, the privacy settings window appeared and the system again locked up.

I have also had several instances where Mozilla itself locks up, but the system
allows me to kill it; sometimes locking up X, forcing me to go to the command
line, othertimes locking up mozilla only.

This has happened a few times before, also, but I can't track it down to
anything in particular. When I try to reproduce the error, I can't.

I am runing Linux (Redhat 9.0) with the K-Desktop. Nothing else seems to lock up
the computer.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
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I am using the skypilot theme; I don't know if it crashes with the classic
theme; I would test it, but it doesn't seem to be reproducible.

Also, I tend to have mozilla up and running for long periods of time; I don't
know if that is the root cause.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

system lockups are generally hardware problems.  with Mozilla, that usually
means video card.  What kind do you have?

Comment 2

[Ken Meyer]

I really don't know. I have a laptop, and I used the basic video card that came
with it. The XF86Config file has it listed as:

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Generic Laptop Display Panel 1024x768"
	HorizSync    31.5 - 48.5
	VertRefresh  40.0 - 70.0
	ModeLine     "1400x1050" 129.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync
+vsync
	ModeLine     "1400x1050" 151.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync
+vsync
	ModeLine     "1400x1050" 162.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync
+vsync
	ModeLine     "1400x1050" 184.0 1400 1464 1656 1960 1050 1051 1054 1100 +hsync
+vsync
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

The computer itself is a LinuxCertified LC-2200. If you can think of someplace
else to look. I will be happy to do so.

Comment 3

[boazrubin]

I have mozilla freez the system trying to open the jpg pictures (press the
manifying glass icon) on the follwing link:

             http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canona70/page14.asp

it happens also when I try to open the picture after downloading it. I tried
oppening this picture with the gqview - and it oppend well.
I am using redhat 9, and have an nvidia graphics card.

thanks
boaz

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

Ken: you might look in /proc/pci or /etc/sysconfig/hwconf

boazrubin: if you're using NVidia's driver, don't.  the XFree86 one is more stable.

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

system lock up = not Mozilla's fault

resolving INVALID