Firefox hangs gnome desktop
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-3.5
FF 3.5.7+nobinonly
Every 3 or 4 days, the gnome desktop freezes. The mouse still tracks but none of the UI elements on any application or the desktop react to clicks. The keyboard no longer controls anything (no task switching, no workspace switching, no Ctl-Alt-Del), and a touch on the power button no longer shuts down the computer. Holding the power button for 4 seconds will power it off.
If you ssh into the affected computer, top/htop shows that no process (including Firefox) is not hogging the CPU during this time. Sending a sigterm to Firefox to will kill it and regain sanity to the Gnome desktop.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 17 18:04:42 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.7+nobinonly
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64
Changed in firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This sounds like it may be a problem with X server therefore please attach your X server configuration file (/etc/X11/ xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/ Xorg.0. log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the "Attachment:" box below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf and let Xorg autodetect your display and video card? When you do please also attach the /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt. Thanks in advance.