From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 10 9:48:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0335337B405 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:48:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC0743F3F for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:48:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0AHmXTP009960; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:48:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: Mozilla hangs X ? From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Nick Jennings Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List In-Reply-To: <20030110094434.A23111@namodn.com> References: <20030110094434.A23111@namodn.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1042220908.358.35.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 10 Jan 2003 12:48:28 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,NOSPAM_INC,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message