Sorry I've been kind of busy and haven't gotten back to you on this. I really do appreciate your attempt to follow up on it, and I value your technical acumen, but like many people, I have competing priorities. I've already noted why Ubuntu has become a relatively low one for me. More importantly, it seems that almost no one else is seeing anything similar enough to this problem to add their comments in this thread, so I'm willing to assume it is just something I'm doing wrong or something unusual about my configuration on that particular machine. If it will help diagnose a more widespread problem, then I'm willing to put more time into it (but I'm still going to be hard pressed to give it much priority).
I don't understand your explanation of the Firefox 3.0 versus 3.5 thing. This machine was almost surely originally a Firefox 2.0 machine, and now that it's been upgraded to 9.10, I don't see how Firefox 3.0 is involved. (However, I do see how that might prevent other people with similar problems from finding this thread, since it is absolutely clear the problem did not appear until the Firefox upgrade, probably to version 3.6.) What I can say is that this particular shutdown seems to be less frequent now. Unfortunately, I can't correlate it to anything that has changed, and I never had the bug in a can. Without a trigger mechanism to reproduce the bug on demand, who can tell anything? Unfortunately, as I had suspected, the WSOD problem has become more frequent with the updated version of Ubuntu on that machine. Right now both of these crashes are rare enough to tolerate, but I'm knocking on wood. Especially for the WSOD, it wouldn't take too much of an increase to make the machine unusable. Big picture solution? I'm probably going to try forcing the main experimental partition on the troubled machine to a different version of Ubuntu at some point after the next release (after waiting long enough for the early mortality bugs to be eliminated). However, when I replace the machine, which will probably be early next year, I have no plans to do any serious Ubuntu work on the new one. I probably won't even bother with the virtual machine approach, given the problems encountered on three machines where I've been using Ubuntu in VMware Player virtual machines... (I still have no Windows 7 machines of my own, but at least it isn't an obvious stinker like Vista--and Linux has (in my judgment) returned to the not-ready-for-real-world-use status. I'm saddened and disappointed, but...) (By the way, what's gone wrong with the BitTorrent download of the basic 10.04? The 9.08 version is apparently still valid, but 10.04 is being disavowed by the Ubuntu.com website? I was still sharing both seeds, but now the 10.04 is just an error message, and I'm sort of guessing that the release version of 10.04 was so bad that it's been replaced, and the Ubuntu people just don't want to talk about it. I haven't been motivated enough to pursue another Ubuntu problem now...) -- Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612131 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
