OK, that didn't take long. With firefox 3.5 (Shiretoko), I've already had several crashes. Falling back to version 173 of the Nvidia driver. (The only other proprietary driver I have active at the moment is the Alternate Atheros "madwifi" driver.
In the last two crashes, I noticed the capslock and (I think) scrolllock leds blinking (About once per second) Also note that at that time I had a spreadsheet open in openoffice, along with firefox. Syslog shows Aug 2 13:00:21 Strider kernel: [ 1015.939269] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004 Aug 2 13:00:21 Strider kernel: [ 1015.939276] IP: [<c01ec87f>] aio_setup_iocb+0x10f/0x2a0 Aug 2 13:00:21 Strider kernel: [ 1015.939286] *pde = 00000000 Aug 2 13:00:21 Strider kernel: [ 1015.939291] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP uname -a Linux Strider 2.6.28-14-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 25 00:28:35 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux output of hwinfo attached to email TimT. On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 19:38, Tim T.<[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for the delay in answering, vacation got in the way. > > - Without the Nvidia accelerated graphics driver (version 180), > everything works fine. > Tested by disabling the driver, running firefox (most recent 3.0): > no problem for two weeks > enabled driver again (about a week ago), used system lightly ), > just had a new freeze, so it seems to be related to the driver > > - Now trying with firefox 3.5, I'll update if there is news. > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:25, Micah > Gersten<[email protected]> wrote: >> Thank you for the update. Which nvidia drivers are you using? The >> proprietary ones or the free ones? >> >> -- >> [Jaunty] Firefox causes system hang on large pages >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362107 >> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >> of the bug. >> > ** Attachment added: "hwinfo.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/29792859/hwinfo.gz -- [Jaunty] Firefox causes system hang on large pages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362107 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
