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Date:      10 Jan 2003 12:48:28 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Nick Jennings <nkj@namodn.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mozilla hangs X ?
Message-ID:  <1042220908.358.35.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20030110094434.A23111@namodn.com>
References:  <20030110094434.A23111@namodn.com>

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On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 12:44, Nick Jennings wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I am using FreeBSD 4.7 and am experiencing a strange X lockup that I am
>  able to reproduce. When I am using Mozilla, in X (doesn't matter what
>  window manager I am using) and I have *allot* of tabs open, probably
>  allot of the sites have javascripts etc. Sometimes, and I haven't noticed
>  any pattern in what I am doing other than having allot of tabs open 
>  (probably 20+), X completely hangs.
> 
>  The mouse locks up, I can't move it, nothing responds. If I try to
>  switch to another console I get a no signal error (on my LCD monitor)
>  so it just doesn't get any signal from the video card apparently.
> 
>  I can ssh into the box from another machine and about all I can do is
>  restart the system. Once the machine restarts, the video is back online.
> 
>  Anyone else experience this problem? It has been going on ever since I
>  installed 4.7 and since then I have updated to STABLE branch a few times,
>  and updated to devel mozilla. No change.

Do you have any strange fonts loaded?  There have been reports of X
crashes when Mozilla is used with non-standard X fonts.

Joe

> 

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