Am 11.05.2010 18:09, schrieb b1: > 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???). There is a huge difference between your problem and the other one: Yours is perfectly explained by a bug in the X server or your display driver (when this happened, look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old for a backtrace), which would be triggered by the flashplugin. The original problem involves a graceful system shutdown, which is not explained by any bug I can think of.
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