[K12OSN] Re: Firefox hangs in k12 - 6 on laptop

[David Hopkins]

It was fixed by removing the gtk2-devel package and a couple of
dependencies.

Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins


On 3/6/07, Julius Szelagiewicz <julius at turtle.com> wrote:
>
> > Strangely enough, today I am seeing the same issue with just one user.
> > Click
> > on Firefox, and the mouse freezes, then over time, the icons on the
> > desktop
> > disappear and finally logs him out.  I don't have gtk2-devel-i386, but
> not
> > sure about the dependencies.   Tried resetting the desktop, but this is
> > only
> > happening for one user (currently).  Just strange.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Dave Hopkins
> >
> >
> > On 3/5/07, Julius Szelagiewicz <julius at turtle.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Dear Folks,
> >> >       I've upgraded my laptop from k12 - 5 to k12 -6. I've run ino
> one
> >> > unpleasant problem - Firefox stops responding  within seconds, no
> >> matter
> >> > what sites, what pages, etc. Any suggestions? (ff 1.5.09)
> >> > Thanks, julius
> >> >
> >> I'm answering my own question for completness sake:
> >> The hang-ups were not restricted to Firefox, IE run under
> >> CrossoverOffice
> >> was crashing too. The culprit was gtk2-devel.i386 package and / or its
> >> dependecies. yum -y erase gtk2-devel-i386.... took care of the problem.
> >> julius
>
> This seems to be the case of Firefox eating all the memory on the
> workstation.
> julius
>
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