Desktop freezes randomly when using smooth scrolling and/ or hardware acceleration
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
If smooth scrolling and/ or hardware acceleration is enabled, destop freezes randomly. Same problem with google chrome.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: firefox 11.0+build1-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic x86_64
AddonCompatChec
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
BuildID: 20120313141247
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xee400000 irq 49'
Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981'
Components : 'HDA:11d41981,
Controls : 20
Simple ctrls : 11
Card29.Amixer.info:
Card hw:29 'ThinkPadEC'
Mixer name : 'ThinkPad EC 7FHT26WW-1.08'
Components : ''
Controls : 2
Simple ctrls : 1
Card29.
Simple mixer control 'Console',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 14
Mono: Playback 3 [21%] [on]
Channel: release
CurrentDmesg:
[ 224.896313] CE: hpet increased min_delta_ns to 45253 nsec
[ 514.406284] CE: hpet increased min_delta_ns to 67879 nsec
[ 565.037387] CE: hpet increased min_delta_ns to 101818 nsec
Date: Sun Mar 18 23:06:56 2012
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExt
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110425)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.4 metric 1
Plugins:
VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 3.0.1) - Lib=libtotem-
Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem) - Lib=libtotem-
DivX® Web Player - Lib=libtotem-
QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6 - Lib=libtotem-
IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.2 (1.2-1ubuntu1)) - Lib=IcedTeaPlug
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=
RunningIncompat
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-14 (4 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 08/26/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7FETA9WW (2.27 )
dmi.board.name: 9452W5Q
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.name: 9452W5Q
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
Confirmed the same symptom for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, using Firefox versions up to and including 13.0.1. This froze the desktop session to the point of not being able to switch out of Xorg to an alternate terminal. Turning on smooth scrolling reproduces the symptom regularly.