2018-07-27 13:57 GMT+03:00 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>: > On Friday, 27 July 2018 11:44:08 BST gevisz wrote: >> 2018-07-27 12:44 GMT+03:00 Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>: > >> > PAM is used to separate applications from the underlying >> > authentication mechanisms. It checks OS user/account/passwd/session >> > authentications when required by applications. This is the backbone >> > of managing Linux authentications today, although some applications >> > retain their own application level authentication mechanism (e.g. SSH). >> >> So, do you think that global -pam use flag can cause Firefox >> and QupZilla to crash on loging web-pages? > > You can run them with strace to see if they are trying to access any pam > modules, but I would think it unlikely.
Thank you for the tip. I will try to use strace after reading about it. However, currently I already deleted grobal -pam use flag and started to update world with the new settings. Some new packages are currently installing and some other are recompiling. > I bet this is something to do with the graphics drivers. Later versions of > browsers are heavy on hardware acceleration and can stress some graphics > drivers causing crashes like this. Geolocation and other pop ups use the GPU > to create rendering effects and this could be the cause of the crash. I doubt this because the same works on old Gentoo intallation on the same computer. But I can not be sure, of course. :)
