Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 12:36:09 -0500 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> To: jau@iki.fi Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.0 PRERELEASE freezing when running Gnome and Firefox Message-ID: <CANT0rcv4BiaB6r7U5F3k23WL-0UdpThXf9x1AEPvZkEJwTV-sw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201112011727.pB1HROxS080944@jau.iki.fi> References: <201112011727.pB1HROxS080944@jau.iki.fi>
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On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Jukka A. Ukkonen <jau@iki.fi> wrote: > > Greetings, > > Has anybody else seen FreeBSD 9.0 PRERELEASE freezing totally when > using X11, Gnome, and Firefox? > > Usually it does not happen immediately after starting firefox but > instead everything might be just fine for about 1/2h, maybe even > 1h or so. > Then, when it hits, it just hits without any warning. Neither does > the system log anything nor does it panic in a controlled manner. > It just stops reacting to anything at all. The keyboard falls dead. > The network connections freeze. All disk activity stops. It will not > even respond to a ping. > > The system is a 12 core AMD64 environment. The last kernel I have > tried is now roughly 2 days old or so (compiled Nov 29th), but as far > as I can tell in 2 days there have been no patches to the system > which could have an obvious positive effect to this sort of a problem. > > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Cheers, > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0// jau > .--- =A0..- =A0-.- =A0-.- =A0.- =A0 =A0.- =A0.-.-.- =A0 =A0..- =A0-.- =A0= -.- =A0--- =A0-. =A0. =A0-. > =A0/ =A0 =A0Jukka A. Ukkonen, =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0= =A0 =A0 =A0 Oxit Ltd, Finland > =A0/__ =A0 M.Sc. (sw-eng & cs) =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0(Ph= one) +358-500-606-671 > =A0 / =A0 Internet: Jukka.Ukkonen(a)Oxit.Fi > =A0/ =A0 =A0Internet: jau(a)iki.fi > =A0v > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0.--- =A0.- =A0..- =A0...-.- =A0.. =A0-.- =A0.. =A0.-.-.- = =A0..-. =A0.. > + + + + My opinions are mine and mine alone, not my employers. + + + + > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > Just a guess... Do you happen to use the nvidia driver? If you do, have you recompiled it, unloaded and reloaded it after updating your kernel and/or X.org?
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