Hey guys, I could use a bit of help on this one:
Sometimes, when browsing the internet with FireFox, the entire system freezes. The only thing I can do is moving the mouse pointer, I can’t use the Run command or anything else.
It usually happens after a stand-by.
Can someone help me plz…
Does your keyboard still work then? If so, hit Ctrl + Alt + F10 to view the system messages during the freeze.
Unfortunately no, nothing works anymore. The only things i can do are moving the mouse pointer and turning off the wireless. That’s all.
I kinda solved this by installing Google Chrome, but now i discovered that the same thing happens iwth other apps as well, like KTorrent, VLC,… and always after a stand-by.
Sorry for the double post…
Open /var/log/messages as root (since it can not be read by regular users) and look for the specific time when your system freezes. Any valuable hints there?
i had a problem like that, my computer would completely freeze up when i used wireless on my laptop frequently and so i installed the mad-wifi drivers which solved the problem. just a thought.
Hey I have the same problem too. Most of the times, it happens when I right-click a link in firefox. Everything seems like they froze. But system time and some stuffs are still updated every minute. But I cannot access anything not from keyboard, not from mouse (though it moves). I can’t even do ctrl+alt+F6 or anything at all. The only option is to reset the computer.
I will check the /var/log/messages next time.
Just checked my var/log/messages…
My last crash was today 7:37h, but there’s nothing in the log file from that time. Last entries are:
Apr 20 07:35:04 linux-d0sc kernel: 6596.719859] PM: Finishing wakeup.
Apr 20 07:35:04 linux-d0sc kernel: 6596.719862] Restarting tasks ... done.
Apr 20 07:35:04 linux-d0sc kernel: 6596.976173] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00c09f00008aec13]
Apr 20 07:35:06 linux-d0sc kernel: 6599.422805] eth1: link down
Apr 20 07:35:06 linux-d0sc kernel: 6599.423064] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
Apr 20 07:35:06 linux-d0sc kernel: 6599.437032] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Apr 20 07:35:07 linux-d0sc kernel: 6600.396019] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
Apr 20 07:35:07 linux-d0sc dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2p1
Apr 20 07:35:07 linux-d0sc dhclient: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
Apr 20 07:35:07 linux-d0sc dhclient: All rights reserved.
Apr 20 07:35:07 linux-d0sc dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Apr 20 07:35:07 linux-d0sc dhclient:
Apr 20 07:35:07 linux-d0sc dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:15:00:4f:33:fc
Apr 20 07:35:07 linux-d0sc dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:15:00:4f:33:fc
Apr 20 07:35:07 linux-d0sc dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback
Apr 20 07:35:09 linux-d0sc avahi-daemon[1644]: Registering new address record for fe80::215:ff:fe4f:33fc on eth0.*.
Apr 20 07:35:10 linux-d0sc dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
Apr 20 07:35:10 linux-d0sc dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
Apr 20 07:35:15 linux-d0sc dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
Apr 20 07:35:15 linux-d0sc dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Apr 20 07:35:15 linux-d0sc avahi-daemon[1644]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.102.
Apr 20 07:35:15 linux-d0sc avahi-daemon[1644]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Apr 20 07:35:15 linux-d0sc avahi-daemon[1644]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.102 on eth0.IPv4.
Apr 20 07:35:15 linux-d0sc dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.102 -- renewal in 1552 seconds.
Apr 20 07:35:16 linux-d0sc if-up.d/21-dhcpcd-hook-samba: No dhcpcd info nor dhclient leases file found for eth0.
Apr 20 07:35:16 linux-d0sc SuSEfirewall2: Setting up rules from /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 ...
Apr 20 07:35:17 linux-d0sc SuSEfirewall2: batch committing...
Apr 20 07:35:17 linux-d0sc SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully set
Apr 20 07:35:17 linux-d0sc sm-notify[7942]: Already notifying clients; Exiting!
Apr 20 07:35:18 linux-d0sc kernel: 6611.203073] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
The next thing happens at 7:38:39, which is when i restarted the system.
Hmm. I haven’t suffered in these couple of days. BUt just out of curiosity, I want to tell you what I think (only my thought though)… that this happens when I use some sites using java.(or heavy javascript). (MOst of the time it happened when I had my college (ecampus) application on my browser.
You might want to check if its the same in your case. That may give us some hint perhaps.
Haha I am suffering from it again. And guess what i found the culprit, its “kmozillahelper”. If your system firefox freezes then kill it, firefox resumes. I do this from my other tty. ctrl+ alt+ f5 and kill it from there if my whole system freezes. Thats the only way, ctrl+alt+backspace wont work.
Doesn’t work, i still cannot use any keyboard commands when the system freezes. I can’t shut the down the process
The same thing happens with Konqueror too, apparently
On Mon, 03 May 2010 14:26:02 GMT, Nega <Nega@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>
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>Doesn’t work, i still cannot use any keyboard commands when the system
>freezes. I can’t shut the down the process
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>The same thing happens with Konqueror too, apparently
If you have another computer and can setup a local net, try setting up
SSH access to the computer that is freezing. Try SSH access to obtain
diagnostic information with tools like top.
I did things like that 16 years ago with unix boxen.