I install openSuSE 11.1 just after it’s release and recently I decided to update to KDE 4.2. Since I made the update I’m getting this, some times freezes, some times crashes of plasma, allways when I’m working in firefox 3.0.1. I not detected yet the cause exactly or what I have to do that trigger this problem. Seems to me that is aleatory because has happened that I restarted the computer and back to work normally. I just know that it happens allways in the first time I start the computer at morning and access firefox. Some times, when my computer is frozen, I go at other computer and I can access my computer with an SSH connection, so I kill some process bounded to my login and then, plasma back to work. But is not allways that I can do this, some times I killed all my processes and plasma continues stopped… even if I give a shutdonw or halt command, plasma on my computer continues frozen. Detail: mouse pointer can be moved by the screen, but the keyboard is also frozen. Ah! … and yesterday this problem happened with skype too.
I have had this problem constantly, normally with Firefox running, but sometimes with Open office, and once it even locked up while I was doing nothing but watching a movie with VLC. Same thing, mouse moves but can’t do anything, everything else is dead. I thought I’d cracked it yesterday but dumping PAE kernel and installing default. But no, today it crashed in the middle of an update which killed openSuse completely. After rushing out and buying a magazine with a Linux DVD on it (I am not presently at home where my install disc is) I have finished up with SLED 11, which is fine except for the godawful Gnome. There is definitely a problem.
Too many people have reported very similar lock ups but the threads get highjacked into discussions about SAMBA and SSH, neither of which I run. Pages and pages of log files later we are no nearer to a solution. I am certainly not, especially as all my logs just got formatted with the SLED install. But I had tried vanilla firefox which didn’t work, different browsers, which didn’t work either.
After upgrading to 4.2 you need to delete plasmarc and some other with plasma in its name files in /home/<user/.kde4/share/config
I had done that so many times the computer does is automatically now. I renamed .KDE but that did no good either, except it did get rid of the ghost icons I was having a problem with at that time. Anyhoo, getting rid of PAE didn’t fix the problem anyway.
etmarques, you said you have Firefox 3.0.1 installed. The latest version is 3.0.10. Maybe if you install the latest version it might help.
i was just going to post the same exact thing.
I had random plasma freezes/crashes that left me usually with a frozen display but the mouse was present and moveable… and microchip8 i believe had tracked it down to the PresentWindows desktop effect (systemsettings/Desktop/DesktopEffects/AllEffects… at the bottom).
After disabling that feature(I also disabled the screen edge action just for good measure) and using cover switch for window switching, the problem evaporated… apparently this effect is sensitive to some graphic drivers (ATI here). And yes, summoning Firefox or any GTK application seemed to spawn this behavior.
j xavier adjusted his/her AFDB on Tuesday 19 May 2009 05:16 to write:
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> I had random plasma freezes/crashes that left me usually with a frozen
> display but the mouse was present and moveable… and microchip8 i
> believe had tracked it down to the PresentWindows desktop effect
> (systemsettings/Desktop/DesktopEffects/AllEffects… at the bottom).
>
> After disabling that feature(I also disabled the screen edge action
> just for good measure) and using cover switch for window switching, the
> problem evaporated… apparently this effect is sensitive to some
> graphic drivers (ATI here). And yes, summoning Firefox or any GTK
> application seemed to spawn this behavior.
>
>
I have just had the same here, yesterday I was testing some options for my
ATI card and noticed that when adding some extra tweaks to the xorg.conf the
machine would lock hard as above.
cure:
If it aint broke dont fix it, I just got rid of all extra “Options” and
machine is back stable as a rock no…[NO CARRIER]
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