Firefox 3.5 beta occasionally completely locks system when starting f11 x86_64
Jason Turning
jturning at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jun 27 17:35:01 UTC 2009
stan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Occasionally, when starting Firefox in F11 x86_64 it will completely
> lock the system, requiring a hard reboot. Is anyone else experiencing
> this? If it is just an idiosyncrasy on my system, I won't bother
> opening a problem record. I have no indication of what is causing
> this, it might not even be firefox but something that firefox triggers.
> Seems to happen when the tabs from a previous shutdown of Firefox are
> loading.
>
> The system is up to date with all the updates from updates-testing so
> is running the latest kernel from there.
>
I haven't had a problem on my F11 x86_64 laptop. I do run the closed Nvidia
driver. Are you running a closed driver? Maybe it is locking X, so see if you
can re-enable the CTRL-ALT-BKSP key to reset just X.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/lusrn9
Also, do you have flash working properly or could that be an issue? I used the
following website to setup my fresh Fedora 11 install.
http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/161/26/
--
Jason Turning
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list