On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:01:30 +0100, Nuno Alexandre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On ons, 02 feb 2005, Collins Richey wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:39:26 -0500, Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > * On Feb 2 5:07, comsatcat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) thusly jotted: > > > > As of two days ago, firefox started to randomly lockup. Things will > > > > work fine for awhile, then when I go to a random site, it will just lock > > > > solid. The only way I've been able to get it to not lock up is to rm > > > > -rf /tmp/*. Does anyone know which files may be causing the lockup or > > > > does anyone have a solution for this? > > > > > > I can't say I've had it lock up, but it's definitely crashed a lot > > > recently. It always occurs when trying to open a new site, but will not > > > reoccur when I revisit the site later. I can't say I've noticed anything > > > strange in /tmp though... > > > Tom > > > > > > p.s. to be fair, "a lot" means more than usual. Nothing really crashes > > > often. > > > > > > > The only crash activity I've seen is: randomly when selecting the back > > key while viewing a PDF document. > > Hi, > are you sure the problem is Firefox ? > I doubt! and you are using Xorg, right ? > Well look here. > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80642 >
Thanks for the info. Maybe this will help others, but this is not my problem. My problem is 1. Not a freeze or hang condition; browser always dies, but nothing else is affected. 2. Seldom reproducible, very random. 3. Always associated with use of acroread, and usually after printing from acroread. -- Collins -- [email protected] mailing list
