Katya hangs playing youtube on FireFox

[Carsten Jensen]

When playing video's on Youtube on Firefox, after some time katya hangs completely, and the sound stutters ..

I can repeat the error, it's just a matter of time(min) ..

The only thing i can does is cut the power and turn back on my netbook, it's a Samsung NC10, and i can crash it with only Firefox running playing video's on Youtube ..

[Carsten Jensen (bevidst)]

I forgot to tell that i run GNOME 32

And i managed a few times to take a snapshot, where i got a terminal like screen with lots of text on it, but still frozen...

Best regards
Carsten, Denmark

[Carsten Jensen (bevidst)]

Snapshot 2/3

[Carsten Jensen (bevidst)]

Snapshot 03/03

This one is the oldest, and the first one the newest ..

For a while now i haven't got the black screen, it hangs and stay at the desktop ..

[Carsten Jensen (bevidst)]

Just now katya crashed with Firefox open, not playing Youtube video's, i had killed the plugin-container, so that flashplayer could not affect anything, i was playing a downloaded mp4 file when it happend ..

[Carsten Jensen (bevidst)]

Just played a little around with Google Chrome, and out of the blue, Linux hangs again ..

And no youtube this time, just downloading a file, i managed to spot the dl speed slow falling, and suddenly Linux hung itself, can this be some internet connection thing, i use my iPhone 4 as modem ?? but have never had the problem before katya ..

Best regards
Carsten

[Galen Thurber (godfree2)]

I'm getting a memory leak as well
1G Ram, no swap.
FF often is the culprit
I have identical setups on my desktop and laptop
only the AMD desktop hangs, mem leaks

[Galen Thurber (godfree2)]

here's what I've been doing to halt the lockups.
login to a console ctrl-alt-f1
type in
killall firefox-bin
but don't hit enter (have it ready)
ctrl alt f7 back to the desktop
keep system monitor open and watch for slow creep of memory usage.
Surf away and if you hear the disk starting to thrash
ctrl-alt f1 at once
wait a few seconds
then hit enter
this will kill FF if you are not too late

[Galen Thurber (godfree2)]

example log
kernel: [62485.258106] Out of memory: Kill process 4219 (firefox-bin) score 367 or sacrifice child

[Galen Thurber (godfree2)]

also try running Gnome in Gnome (no effects) from the main login screen

[Carsten Jensen (bevidst)]

Well, that's only a half solution for one of the reasons that katya has kernel panics ..

It is a kernel problem, i can crash katya in any different way now ..

I can do it just by playing videofiles or opening a pdf, but it's not every time katya panics, but the tethered iPhone is a sure way to do it ..