firefox is regularly dying

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Adam Jackson wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 05:50 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Sat, 11 Apr 2009, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
> >
> > > On 11/04/09 10:19, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > >    as of earlier this morning, firefox has simply aborted when i try to
> > > > do nothing more than follow a perfectly decent link.  it's happened
> > > > three times in the last 20 minutes.  is anyone else seeing firefox
> > > > just going away for no reason?
> > > >
> > > > $ rpm -q firefox
> > > > firefox-3.1-0.11.beta3.fc11.x86_64
> > > > $
> > >
> > > Ok here.
> > > Did you try starting it from cli, to see errors if any.
> >
> >   that's my next test.  and in the 30 minutes or so since i posted
> > this, firefox has gone away another three times, so this isn't just a
> > rare cosmic ray thing, it's getting pretty regular at this point.
>
> Did you do this yet?

  sadly, no ... it's been a busy weekend.  i'll see if i can get to it
this aft.  although the more common symptom at this point is not FF
dying, but FF locking up the entire system, so that's going to be a
bit trickier to debug.

rday
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