On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 11:14 +0800, Handsome Cheung wrote: > hi all, > > I am a newbie for ArchLinux. > > My computer often shuts down suddenly when I browse web site. It brings me > to TTY and said "The system is going down for system halt NOW!". I found > that is because of the crash of flash plugin of firefox. > > And my question is why the crash of firefox can cause my computer shuts > down? > > PS. my system environment: Arch + awesome, no DE. > Thanks! > > hc Hi, Well it seesm like you are not the only one with this problem. I think I experience the same, although with a slightly different setup and therefore alternate consequences. I am running gnome on my 32bit Arch Linux machine, with a ati graphics-card. Sometimes firefox crashes and gnome restarts. No complete shutdown in my case, but I have to login again. However this only happens with the flash-plugin being enabled. Unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce the problem, it occurs without any pattern (At least none which I could discover). However, i therefore installed flashblock on firefox. Since then I havn't experienced this problem again. Therefore I think that your shutdown (my gnome restart) is definitly caused by flashplugin+firefox itself. Overheating or strange scripts, aren't the problem in my case (I am sure, since it is a pretty standard install and the temps are ok). Currently I was waiting for the next update to eventually fix the problem (since I can live without flash). But eventually someone has some clues of how to troubleshoot this (Is there any firefox stacktrace???). Thanks, any advice is appreciated Benedikt
