Re: Iceweasel stability issues after reading the browser straw poll

2010-09-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 21:40, Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I don't have the stability problems as you describe but I don't use Flashblock or Flashgot or Readability. I do have a problem with youtube videos and the sound, but I don't know what's causing it and I

Re: Iceweasel stability issues after reading the browser straw poll

2010-09-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/12/10 23:35, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 13. 09. 2010 06:40:24 je Marc Shapiro napisal(a): I am running Firefox 3.6 on Lenny and I still have sound problems. I think the problems are more due to flash games that my daughter runs than to youtube, but flash seems to be the culprit in any case.

Re: Iceweasel stability issues after reading the browser straw poll

2010-09-13 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 13. 09. 2010 06:40:24 je Marc Shapiro napisal(a): I am running Firefox 3.6 on Lenny and I still have sound problems. I think the problems are more due to flash games that my daughter runs than to youtube, but flash seems to be the culprit in any case. Yep. In my imaginary world, in

Iceweasel stability issues after reading the browser straw poll

2010-09-12 Thread James Stuckey
Hi all, After reading the browser straw poll, I was influenced to try some of the plug-ins listed. I installed: Adblock Plus 1.2.1, FlagFox 4.0.8, Flashblock 1.5.13, FlashGot 1.2, Leo Search 1.0.0, NoScript 1.9.8.69, and Readability 1.1. Some of these I installed with aptitude and the ones that

Re: Iceweasel stability issues after reading the browser straw poll

2010-09-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In aanlktin7d3hqspg3icxamzo1qjnz3yixrmkcs+3am...@mail.gmail.com, James Stuckey wrote: After reading the browser straw poll, I was influenced to try some of the plug-ins listed. I installed. Since doing so I've begun to have, for the very first time, stability problems with iceweasel on testing

Re: Iceweasel stability issues after reading the browser straw poll

2010-09-12 Thread Adam Hardy
James Stuckey on 12/09/10 17:12, wrote: the plug-ins listed. I installed: Adblock Plus 1.2.1, FlagFox 4.0.8, Flashblock 1.5.13, FlashGot 1.2, Leo Search 1.0.0, NoScript 1.9.8.69, and Readability 1.1. Some of these I installed with aptitude and the ones that weren't I installed through

Re: Iceweasel stability issues after reading the browser straw poll

2010-09-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
Adam Hardy wrote: I don't have the stability problems as you describe but I don't use Flashblock or Flashgot or Readability. I do have a problem with youtube videos and the sound, but I don't know what's causing it and I haven't tried fixing it yet. I'm hoping for an upgrade in the near

Re: Iceweasel stability issues after reading the browser straw poll

2010-09-12 Thread Bret Busby
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, James Stuckey wrote: Since doing so I've begun to have, for the very first time, stability problems with iceweasel on testing when watching flash videos on youtube. Generally, my browser will, some time during the playing of the video, before, or after it finishes, become

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson wrote: I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing Etch. Anyone with insight would be appreciated. Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep my partitions, but blow away the Debian

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep my partitions, but blow away the Debian Testing installation with

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:48:40PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing Etch. Anyone with insight would be appreciated. Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:50:02PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Just curious: why not amd64? I'm running it on my Athlon64 3800+. The _only_ thing I need 32-bit for is adobe flashplayer, for which I run a chroot for the browser. That problem is fixed in Lenny/Sid

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Just curious: why not amd64? I'm running it on my Athlon64 3800+. The _only_ thing I need 32-bit for is adobe flashplayer, for which I run a chroot for the browser. That problem is fixed in Lenny/Sid but I didn't want to go that route. After having done it, setting

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:28:07PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:04:58PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: Well, I've decided to

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:04:58PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:04:58PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep

Re: saving package selections (Stability issues)

2007-07-26 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:14:23PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:07:59PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: if you are only installing the tasksel selections and not adding additional software, then there is no reason to do this. I just know that if I had to

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:07:59PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: if you are only installing the tasksel selections and not adding additional software, then there is no reason to do this. I just know that if I had to reinstall my current machine, I'd want to pull a list of what was

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:26:36PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Mike Robinson wrote: I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing Etch. Anyone with insight would be appreciated. Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-26 Thread Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson wrote: I'm almost to the point of blowing the system away and installing Etch. Anyone with insight would be appreciated. Well, I've decided to throw in the towel and install Etch. I think I'd like to boot with an Etch install CD, keep my partitions, but blow away the Debian

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-24 Thread Mike Robinson
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Next time you compile things, start a couple of sessions (=separate windows): - vmstat 5 - to keep track of free memory and swapping - top - sorted so the most memory hungry processes are on top - tail -f /var/log/syslog - to see when oom-killer fires up - a compile

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-24 Thread David Fox
On 7/24/07, Mike Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went ahead and performed the above. The compile session did crash a few times as usual, but the oom-killer never appeared. In fact, looking through the logs, it hasn't appeared since July 15th (the logs I posted earlier). So, I'm assuming

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike Robinson wrote: According to this you're running out of memory!? At least the oom-killer is (disturbingly) active before the reboot, but the messages are pretty definite: your 2G swap is maxed out. That's bad and will cause all sorts of problems... This *could* be an unhandled

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:37:45PM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: It has already been said, you might want to try the K7 kernel. I first went that route: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00386.html Plus, it's well established that the AMD processors are fully

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:22:47AM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's been unstable since. By unstable I mean that applications may crash (disappear) and

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-22 Thread Mike Robinson
Karl, First off, thank you very much for looking so closely at my logs! I truly appreciate your time. I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's been unstable since. By unstable I mean that

Stability issues

2007-07-21 Thread Mike Robinson
I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's been unstable since. By unstable I mean that applications may crash (disappear) and the system may freeze. The system is freezing about once a day.

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-21 Thread Joe Hart
On Saturday 21 July 2007 14:22:47 Mike Robinson wrote: I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's been unstable since. By unstable I mean that applications may crash (disappear) and the system

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:22:47AM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's been unstable since. By unstable I mean that applications may crash (disappear) and

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-21 Thread Mike Robinson
Andrei Popescu wrote: It has already been said, you might want to try the K7 kernel. I first went that route: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00386.html Plus, it's well established that the AMD processors are fully compatible with 686 (they never would have sold a chip

cold start stability issues

2003-07-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been noticing some very strange problems with my primary desktop. I normally don't shut ever shut it off and everything works great. No crashes, no lockups, no instability. However, any time I shut it off for a while before turning it back on, it becomes extremely unstable. It will crash,

RE: cold start stability issues

2003-07-07 Thread C. R. Oldham
Everything that attaches to a motherboard tends to do so quite firmly, and for good reason. Any suggestions? I'd still crack your case and go inside, reseat all the chips (just push down on the socketed ones, take out replace memory DIMMS, and make sure your processor is seated well). Might

Re: cold start stability issues

2003-07-07 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:46:47AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: I've been noticing some very strange problems with my primary desktop. I normally don't shut ever shut it off and everything works great. No crashes, no lockups, no instability. However, any time I shut it off for a while before