On Aug 28, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Cavan wrote:
> On Aug 28, 8:06 pm, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Aug 28, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Cavan Mejias wrote:
>>
>>>                            Dear list,
>>
>>>    Does anyone know of a solution to Firefox freezing X11 in Fedora?
>>> It will be loading a webpage and suddenly the the GUI becomes
>>> unresponsive?
>>> Only thing I can do is a hard shutdown. Thanks.
>>
>> What site are you trying to load?  Can you hit Control + Meta +
>> Backspace to restart Xorg?  Did you check the kernel logs?  Are you
>> using ATI or NVIDIA.
>>
>> What build of Firefox?  Was there a full moon at the time?
>>
>> Come on here, work with me!  ;-)
>>
>> Registered Linux Addict #431495
>> For Faith and Family! | John 3:16!http://www.fsdev.net/
>
> *Chuckle* my post was a short on details. :P
> --  no full moon but I'll see if other celestial phenomena were
> involved. :)

Have to ask.  If it's a full moon and you live on a beach... there  
could be reasons why the computer won't work :)

> --  ATI 200M shared memory thingy.
> --  I tried crtl+alt+Fx but there was no  result. Didn't know about
> the ctrl+meta+backspace combination; will try it.

I don't know what ctrl+alt+Fx does, but Control Meta Backspace will  
hard reset Xorg.  It can get out out of a few interesting problems so  
long as the problem was started by Xorg.

> --
> --  I have had the problem w/ Shiretoko 3.5.3 and Minefield 3.7a1. Ill
> get a copy of the latest stable Firefox and see if it still occurs.

Man I've been using Safari for so long I didn't realize that Firefox  
was having these problems...

Registered Linux Addict #431495
For Faith and Family! | John 3:16!
http://www.fsdev.net/


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