On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 21:52, John Jason Jordan<[email protected]> wrote: > While doing testing I discovered that typing anything in a Google box > in Firefox will bring down Firefox or the entire computer very quickly.
I thought for a moment that this might indicate a RAM problem since FF does tend to use a lot of it. But then ... > Finally I decided to try rebooting to older kernels. My up-to-date > Jaunty had 2.6.28-15, so I rebooted to -14. No luck. Then I rebooted to > -13. And that made a big difference - finally I can type repeated > searches in the Google box without locking up. I have done about 30 > searches without a problem. It is too soon to be sure, but it looks as > though a major problem has been resolved. Please cross your fingers for > me. > > The mice still don't work, though. And I need to find what happened > between -13 and -14. I might find some big clues by going through the > changes. And I really ought to spend some time and figure out why > Jaunty will not shut down completely, because that may have contributed > to the problem. I wonder if reinstalling -15 packages would do anything. Did it ever work in -15? Larry _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
