Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
From: Jimmy Bradley bmobil...@ocellaris.net I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem? I've had many temporary whole desktop freezes due to Firefox being overloaded. Not sure who is the culprit... Gnome? Xorg? NVidia driver? Guess nothing in the bios or lnux logs? You could try another browser for a while and see if there are no more freezes... JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
John Doe wrote: From: Jimmy Bradley bmobil...@ocellaris.net I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem? I've had many temporary whole desktop freezes due to Firefox being overloaded. Not sure who is the culprit... Gnome? Xorg? NVidia driver? Guess nothing in the bios or lnux logs? You could try another browser for a while and see if there are no more freezes... I wouldn't say many, but yes, it does. It also does things like slowing to a crawl, and then there's when I allow something via noscript, and refresh the page... and then have to refresh and restart the streaming media that's running in another tab. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Jimmy Bradley wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Jimmy Bradley bmobil...@ocellaris.net Subject: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem? I've noticed something similar on Centos 5.6 when using Firefox. I traced it down to the Firefox flashplayer plugin - something called npviewer.bin If I upload a picture to www.tinypic.com and then highlight the text to copy the picture's url, right clicking on the highlighted text causes Firefox to freeze, and swapping desktops is very slugish. Killing npviewer.bin unlocks the system again. Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin? Kind Regards, Keith Roberts - Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] - ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin? The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like Flash does. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
On 08/26/2011 02:35 PM Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin? The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like Flash does. Paul. Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often. Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the problems went away. One site I went to every day had flash stuff all over it. When I disabled the plugin, in the places where formerly there were eye-grabbing advertisements there was no just code. After a few weeks they must have noticed, because the code was replaced by more or less static images. So maybe advertisers notice when people turn off the flash crap. And maybe that will make adobe eventually get their act together. Hope so... I kind of like some of the videos. -- War is a failure of the imagination. --William Blake ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
On Aug 26, 2011, at 4:33 PM, ken wrote: On 08/26/2011 02:35 PM Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin? The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like Flash does. Paul. Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often. Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the problems went away. One site I went to every day had flash stuff all over it. When I disabled the plugin, in the places where formerly there were eye-grabbing advertisements there was no just code. After a few weeks they must have noticed, because the code was replaced by more or less static images. So maybe advertisers notice when people turn off the flash crap. And maybe that will make adobe eventually get their act together. Hope so... I kind of like some of the videos. you can use flash block plugin on FF which allows you to simply click on the flash objects you're interested in and let the rest just show placeholders Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:33 -0400, ken wrote: The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like Flash does. Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often. Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the problems went away. Advantages of FF 4 with HTML 5 http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/firefox-4-the-html5-parser-inline-svg-speed-and-more/ Problems with no 'official' video format for HTML 5 http://lifehacker.com/5488607/can-i-play-html5-youtube-videos-in-firefox-right-now An alternative to Flash http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/watch-youtube-videos-in-html5/ The last 2 links mentioned Linux problems with buggy Flash. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:21 AM, Jimmy Bradley bmobil...@ocellaris.net wrote: I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem? Jim, Is it stock firefox? What are you browsing with it at when it freezes? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
