On Tuesday 09 January 2007 00:27, Richard England wrote: >Kernel 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 smp fully updated install > >firefox 1.5.09 via yum > >If I start firefox and use or let it sit idle, eventually the system >will lock up. No keyboard response, cursor moves with mouse movement >but the buttons do not function. I can't conclusively say that firefox >is that cause but it seems to be the commonality. If I let the system >idle without firefox, I have yet to see a freeze. > >Any one else seen this? Yes, couple of times when I got up and went to bed leaving FF open. I doesn't seem to do that on locally displayed stuff though. I can leaving it sit on localhost:631/printers for days. >Any one have some diagnostic tricks I can use >to isolate this? Its not been a huge problem. Its bit me twice IIRC, and both times the mouse pointer would move absolutely naturally but nothing on the keyboard worked, and the screen blanker that should have kicked in hours ago hadn't as the monitor was still powered up else I wouldn't have been able to wake it up and see the mouse moving. My box has a hardware reset button, so it got tapped. Both times. I didn't think to go out to the shop and try to ssh into it, too cold for the way I'm usually dressed. >I'm not a complete novice in using Linux but any tips >might save me a boat load of trial and error. I may try starting a VNC >session from another machine and see if it is active so I can see dmesg, >etc. Perhaps it's an xwindows issue..... >Thanks, >~~Richard -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
