Re: I think Firefox crashed my system

2023-12-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 16:08 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/10/2023 03:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > In my case at least there wasn't even a mouse cursor on screen, and > > the > > fact that nothing was written to the journal for about 10 hours > > before > > I rebooted would seem to

Re: I think Firefox crashed my system

2023-12-10 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/10/2023 03:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: In my case at least there wasn't even a mouse cursor on screen, and the fact that nothing was written to the journal for about 10 hours before I rebooted would seem to indicate everything was dead. I should have tried an ssh from my laptop but

Re: I think Firefox crashed my system

2023-12-10 Thread Tom Horsley
I have definitely had video driver bugs crash my system, usually while running a web browser which seems to push every button in the video drivers :-). In fact every time I try using the nouveau drivers, that usually happens somewhere between 2 hours and two days later, then I install the nvidia

Re: I think Firefox crashed my system

2023-12-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2023-12-11 at 07:03 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 16:50 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > It should not be possible for a userland process to cause this, > > which i > > why I thought it could be OOM. > > Hmm, I've had a mpv playing a video file hard lock-up a

Re: I think Firefox crashed my system

2023-12-10 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 16:50 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > It should not be possible for a userland process to cause this, which i > why I thought it could be OOM. Hmm, I've had a mpv playing a video file hard lock-up a system several times (dunno if it was a corrupt video file, or another

Re: I think Firefox crashed my system

2023-12-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 07:06 -0600, Roger Heflin wrote: > This is not an out of memory crash. > > This is a code bug in firefox and/or in the shared library being > called by firefox. > > Usually this is related to something unexpected/unhandled in the data > stream being processed incorrectly. >

Re: I think Firefox crashed my system

2023-12-10 Thread Roger Heflin
This is not an out of memory crash. This is a code bug in firefox and/or in the shared library being called by firefox. Usually this is related to something unexpected/unhandled in the data stream being processed incorrectly. I have had a few of these firefox crashes since around Nov 20.