Re: Google Earth kills system
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:33:19AM -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:28:10 -0600 JW Foster jfoster81...@verizon.net wrote: I built Google Earth as instructed in the installer. It starts OK then as soon as the browser pops open both the mouse my keyboard freeze up I have to reboot. It seems to open the browser a popup with tips. I,m able to kill the tips,if I leave the curser in the browser screen, but in seconds the mouse dies keyboard freezes up. Both are completely unresponsive. Any tips? Thanks John Do you have a 3d accelerated graphics card and, if so, is it enabled? Googleearth needs the heavy-duty graphics capabilities. Before I got fglrx configured for 3D support, GoogleEarth just popped up a warning that it would run slowly and haltingly, complete with instructions, and it did. It didn't crash. Once fglrx was installed correctly, it ran great. Then support for my Radeon Mobility FireGL 9000 was dropped and the 2.6.30 kernel came along. fglrx upgrades eventually stopped working in the 2.6.26 kernel and I changed to Firmware-Linux and moved to the 2.6.30 and the new xserver-xorg. That seemed fine and, strangely, to improve over time. It went from flickering but not quite halting to running very smoothly in the course of about 4 sessions. A few days later GoogleEarth and xscreensaver started seg-faulting severely. They took out big sections of my file system on *two* computers. I've never had crashes like that in 7 years of Debian. I've got one drive completely down and unbootable. I haven't found much evidence of what happened. None of the upgraded packages in that period seem X related. I've just been living in CLI land until I get time to repair and investigate more. -- Kind Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Google Earth kills system
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:49:13AM -0800, evenso wrote: I haven't found much evidence of what happened. None of the upgraded packages in that period seem X related. I've just been living in CLI land until I get time to repair and investigate more. Although Googleearth is not mentioned, some of the segfault crashes in below testing packages were happening to my system at the same time Googleearth was causing similar problems. So it is CLI mode testing for me until whenever. Special attention to item 2, libgl1-mesa.dri, marked fixed in 7.7-1, which is in experimental and doesn't even apply to an i386 system outside of hurd and kfreebsd. begin list- grave bugs of xserver-xorg (- 1:7.5+3) forwarded #568421 - X hangs after upgrade from 7.4 to 7.5 grave bugs of libgl1-mesa-dri (- 7.6.1-1) marked as done in some version #565427 - libgl1-mesa-dri: any 3d applications completely freeze system # (Fixed: 7.7-1) critical bugs of xserver-xorg (- 1:7.5+3) unfixed #567619 - xserver-xorg: After upgrading squeeze xserver stops responding #567318 - gnome-screensaver causes X session crash grave bugs of xserver-xorg-video-nv (- 1:2.1.15-1) unfixed #568170 - xserver-xorg-video-nv: nv driver causes segfault in X server # during InitOutput grave bugs of xserver-xorg-input-all (- 1:7.5+3) unfixed #567756 - xserver-xorg-input-all: keyboard not working after squeeze # upgrade grave bugs of xserver-xorg-video-sis (- 1:0.10.2-1) unfixed #546714 - sis: color issues with 0.10.1 and server 1.6 serious bugs of xserver-xorg-video-intel (- 2:2.9.1-2) unfixed #567563 - Unable to switch to the console serious bugs of xserver-xorg-video-nv (- 1:2.1.15-1) unfixed #383465 - Contains obfuscated source code, DFSG violation? serious bugs of xserver-xorg-input-wacom (- 0.10.3+20100109-1) unfixed #567569 - Unable to bind some core keys to pad buttons critical bugs of xserver-xorg (- 1:7.3+20) unfixed #567318 - gnome-screensaver causes X session crash grave bugs of xserver-xorg-video-nv (- 1:2.1.15-1) unfixed #568170 - xserver-xorg-video-nv: nv driver causes segfault in X server # during InitOutput grave bugs of xserver-xorg-input-all (- 1:7.5+3) unfixed #567756 - xserver-xorg-input-all: keyboard not working after squeeze # upgrade grave bugs of xserver-xorg-video-sis (- 1:0.10.2-1) unfixed #546714 - sis: color issues with 0.10.1 and server 1.6 serious bugs of xserver-xorg-video-intel (- 2:2.9.1-2) unfixed #567563 - Unable to switch to the console serious bugs of xserver-xorg-video-nv (- 1:2.1.15-1) unfixed #383465 - Contains obfuscated source code, DFSG violation? serious bugs of xserver-xorg-input-wacom (- 0.10.3+20100109-1) unfixed #567569 - Unable to bind some core keys to pad buttons end list -- Kind Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Google Earth kills system
I built Google Earth as instructed in the installer. It starts OK then as soon as the browser pops open both the mouse my keyboard freeze up I have to reboot. It seems to open the browser a popup with tips. I,m able to kill the tips,if I leave the curser in the browser screen, but in seconds the mouse dies keyboard freezes up. Both are completely unresponsive. Any tips? Thanks John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Google Earth kills system
On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:28:10 -0600 JW Foster jfoster81...@verizon.net wrote: I built Google Earth as instructed in the installer. It starts OK then as soon as the browser pops open both the mouse my keyboard freeze up I have to reboot. It seems to open the browser a popup with tips. I,m able to kill the tips,if I leave the curser in the browser screen, but in seconds the mouse dies keyboard freezes up. Both are completely unresponsive. Any tips? Thanks John Do you have a 3d accelerated graphics card and, if so, is it enabled? Googleearth needs the heavy-duty graphics capabilities. Cybe R. Wizard -- Registered GNU/Linux user # 126326 Registered Ubuntu User # 2136 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
