Opening pdf in Iceweasel crashes session.
Greetings, I'm getting this a lot. My university uses moodle and lots of classnotes are in pdf. When using Iceweasel 3.0.7-1 (and the previous version), if i open too many pdfs (around 10) in moodle, it'll crash my session and i'm back at gdm's login screen - very frustrating. On other sites sometimes it'll crash just for trying to print to pdf, or open a single pdf. Which log or other tool can i check? Other stuff like flash works well, but that's embeded, it's not a file the browser tries to open. I guess i could just set it to download but i'd like to preview before. Any suggestions? kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64, unstable Nuno Magalhães LU#484677 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Opening pdf in Iceweasel crashes session.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:05:48PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: Greetings, I'm getting this a lot. My university uses moodle and lots of classnotes are in pdf. When using Iceweasel 3.0.7-1 (and the previous version), if i open too many pdfs (around 10) in moodle, it'll crash my session and i'm back at gdm's login screen - very frustrating. On other sites sometimes it'll crash just for trying to print to pdf, or open a single pdf. Which log or other tool can i check? Other stuff like flash works well, but that's embeded, it's not a file the browser tries to open. I guess i could just set it to download but i'd like to preview before. Any suggestions? kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64, unstable You might be running out of ram. If X dies to the point of dropping you back at the gdm login, then most likely the X server failed to allocate more memory with an X client (iceweasel and/or moodle (whatever that is) in this case) asking for more. Certainly iceweasel has always used tons of ram when many tabs are open at once, and if they have plugins on the pages then those plugins use ram too. You might just not have enough. You might even see a note about it in either .xsession-errors or the Xorg.0.log file in /var/log or maybe the gdm.log, or perhaps the out of memory killer left a note in dmesg or the kernel log. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Opening pdf in Iceweasel crashes session.
Nuno Magalhães escreveu: Greetings, I'm getting this a lot. My university uses moodle and lots of classnotes are in pdf. When using Iceweasel 3.0.7-1 (and the previous version), if i open too many pdfs (around 10) in moodle, it'll crash my session and i'm back at gdm's login screen - very frustrating. On other sites sometimes it'll crash just for trying to print to pdf, or open a single pdf. First of all install apt-listbugs, this package help a loot and report the bugs of your install packages. to check debug information, call the iceweasel from a terminal, and try to log the error .. same like this iceweasel iceweasel.log But i suggest you to update your system using sources unstable/testing and experimental too .. here works a loot great !! Which log or other tool can i check? Other stuff like flash works well, but that's embeded, it's not a file the browser tries to open. I guess i could just set it to download but i'd like to preview before. Any suggestions? kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64, unstable Nuno Magalhães LU#484677 -- Erick Tostes Administrador de redes www.geekbr.multiply.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
