Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-19 Thread Ned Slider
On 19/10/12 02:36, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:00:54PM +0100, Ned Slider wrote: On 18/10/12 21:18, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:10:32PM -0400, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 01:51:59PM -0600, Zube wrote: On Thu Oct 18 03:43:40 PM, fred smith wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, October 19, 2012 05:44:14 AM Ned Slider wrote: On 19/10/12 02:36, fred smith wrote: that all makes perfect sense, except,... why did everything ELSE still work? (I admit to not having tried any of the GL screensaver demos, or any high-end GL games...) Only applications using

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-19 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 01:19:45PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: On Friday, October 19, 2012 05:44:14 AM Ned Slider wrote: On 19/10/12 02:36, fred smith wrote: that all makes perfect sense, except,... why did everything ELSE still work? (I admit to not having tried any of the GL screensaver

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-18 Thread James Pearson
fred smith wrote: This just started happening this evening. a little history: way back last year, or thereabouts, I posted about a weird problem I was having. over the course of 2 or 3 days I figured out how to fix it, but not what the cause was. the fix amounts to navigating to my user's

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-18 Thread Tru Huynh
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:37:41PM -0400, fred smith wrote: This just started happening this evening. I *don't* have the issue on x86_64 and nvidia-kmod drivers here. Maybe you can tell us more about your X setup. Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance)

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-18 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:59:16AM +0100, James Pearson wrote: fred smith wrote: This just started happening this evening. a little history: way back last year, or thereabouts, I posted about a weird problem I was having. over the course of 2 or 3 days I figured out how to fix it, but

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-18 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
fred smith wrote: in another posting in this thread, Tru Hyunh asked about the general X setup. Vanilla Centos 5.8 except it's using a recent Nvidia driver to run a GeForce 9800GT card. (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-290.10). first thing i'ld do is update the nvidia driver, and I recommend switching to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-18 Thread James Pearson
fred smith wrote: Other info, I don't know what would be helpful. I'll paste in here the contents of the X.org log file from which the backtrace above came, in case that might be helpful. Or, ask any specific question and I'll try to answer. (EE) Oct 17 20:49:08 NVIDIA(0): Failed to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-18 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:19:10PM +0100, James Pearson wrote: fred smith wrote: Other info, I don't know what would be helpful. I'll paste in here the contents of the X.org log file from which the backtrace above came, in case that might be helpful. Or, ask any specific question and

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-18 Thread Zube
On Thu Oct 18 03:43:40 PM, fred smith wrote: That doesn't look good ... No, it doesn't. Perhaps I need to reinstall the Nvidia driver. but it's weird that everything seems to just work except for FF 16.0.1. Confirmed. FF 16.0.1 from the mozilla site crashes X on CentOS 5.8 32-bit and

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-18 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 01:51:59PM -0600, Zube wrote: On Thu Oct 18 03:43:40 PM, fred smith wrote: That doesn't look good ... No, it doesn't. Perhaps I need to reinstall the Nvidia driver. but it's weird that everything seems to just work except for FF 16.0.1. Confirmed. FF

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-18 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:10:32PM -0400, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 01:51:59PM -0600, Zube wrote: On Thu Oct 18 03:43:40 PM, fred smith wrote: That doesn't look good ... No, it doesn't. Perhaps I need to reinstall the Nvidia driver. but it's weird that

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-18 Thread Ned Slider
On 18/10/12 21:18, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:10:32PM -0400, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 01:51:59PM -0600, Zube wrote: On Thu Oct 18 03:43:40 PM, fred smith wrote: That doesn't look good ... No, it doesn't. Perhaps I need to reinstall the Nvidia driver. but

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-18 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/18/2012 05:00 PM, Ned Slider wrote: On 18/10/12 21:18, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:10:32PM -0400, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 01:51:59PM -0600, Zube wrote: On Thu Oct 18 03:43:40 PM, fred smith wrote: That doesn't look good ... No, it doesn't. Perhaps I

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-18 Thread Zube
On Thu Oct 18 11:00:54 PM, Ned Slider wrote: The reason is that the NVIDIA installer overwrites some distro files with it's own version of some libs, in this case the offending file is /usr/lib{64}/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so OK, that makes sense. Further testing showed the problem

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-18 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:00:54PM +0100, Ned Slider wrote: On 18/10/12 21:18, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:10:32PM -0400, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 01:51:59PM -0600, Zube wrote: On Thu Oct 18 03:43:40 PM, fred smith wrote: That doesn't look good ...

[CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-17 Thread fred smith
This just started happening this evening. a little history: way back last year, or thereabouts, I posted about a weird problem I was having. over the course of 2 or 3 days I figured out how to fix it, but not what the cause was. the fix amounts to navigating to my user's .local/share/mime

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X [updated]

2012-10-17 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:37:41PM -0400, fred smith wrote: This just started happening this evening. a little history: way back last year, or thereabouts, I posted about a weird problem I was having. over the course of 2 or 3 days I figured out how to fix it, but not what the cause was.