Firefox Freezes Linux

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#1

At least I think it is Firefox doing it, but now and then linux just freezes and I get the little closed hand for my curser.
When this happens, I cannot do anything except shut down which I don’t like to do.

Firefox is up to date and Flash is up to date, how do I;
A.) Stop this from happening
OR
B.)Recover from it a bit more gracefully

SYSTEM:
OS: Linux 3.1.10-1.16-desktop x86_64
KDE: 4.8.4 (4.8.4) “release 513”

AMD Phenom™ II X6 1090T Processor
Speed: 3,200.00 MHz
Cores: 5
Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
Model:
2D driver: radeon
3D driver: Unknown Gallium (7.11)
Total memory (RAM): 7.8 GiB
Free memory: 5.3 GiB (+ 1.2 GiB Caches)
Free swap: 2.0 GiB

#2

I have a test installation where this happens sometimes too. Then I can’t do anything with the mouse, but I can use the keyboard. I switch to a console window and kill firefox. After that the mouse is working again.

#3

I am a linux noob - would you be kind and post the steps to do that please?

#4

You need to have a console window already open. Then you can switch by pressing Alt-Tab from firefox to this window.
There you issue:

ps -ef | grep firefox

The output should be like this:


hendrik@lthendrik:~> ps -ef | grep firefox
hendrik   3814  1494  0 20:51 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/firefox
hendrik   3819  3814 10 20:51 ?        00:05:37 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin
hendrik   4492  1898  0 21:43 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto firefox

Now kill the two firefox processes:

kill 3814 3819

(Replace the process ids with yours.)

#5

On 08/07/12 20:26, coasterad wrote:
> Firefox is up to date and Flash is up to date, how do I;
> A.) Stop this from happening
> OR
> B.)Recover from it a bit more gracefully

I had this recently with flash content video
I had to disable Hardware Acceleration again

#6

Thank you so much for your time.

#7

I’m not sure I have “Hardware Acceleration” – is there medicine for that?

#8

CTRL+ALT+F2 will switch you to text mode, CTRL+ALT+F7 back to X. It’s not necessary to have a terminal open at all times.

#9

On 08/07/12 21:36, coasterad wrote:
>
> I’m not sure I have “Hardware Acceleration” – is there medicine for
> that?
>
>

It’s under the settings when you right click a flash video, but the
context menu doesn’t always show

#10

CTL+ALT+F2 putss me on a login screen which will not acknowledge my user name and password or the superuser (su) and password -

#11

> CTL+ALT+F2 putss me on a login screen which will not acknowledge my user
> name and password or the superuser (su) and password -

check and make sure your caps lock key is set the way you wish it, and
don’t forget that in Linux MYPASS, mypass, and MyPass are three very
different passwords, and none can be used for the other…

–
dd

#12

On 2012-07-09 11:16, coasterad wrote:
>
> CTL+ALT+F2 putss me on a login screen which will not acknowledge my user
> name and password or the superuser (su) and password -

Then your system is very broken.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

#13

Am 09.07.2012 11:16, schrieb coasterad:
> or the superuser (su) and password
I hope you did not type su as the user name for the superuser, the
username for that is root

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