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Every now and then, usually while doing something related to firefox ( |
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mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r2) but it's also happened when someone sent me a file |
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over MSN in gaim (gaim-1.5.0), my copy of xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 will lock up and |
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refuse all interaction. |
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All windows stop responding; xmms keeps playing; keyboard locks up and the |
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mouse, although free to wiggle around won't cross from one screen to |
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another. Logging in from another machine over SSH, top reveals that X is |
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occupying 90-something% of the CPU; killing individual applications like |
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firefox or xmms doesn't do anything but killing X gives me back a working, |
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functional login screen. |
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This is, as you might imagine, amazingly annoying. For whatever reason, |
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it'll happen when I click specific links in Firefox (i.e. my professor's |
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labs & assignments link) or alt tab away or back into Firefox. I haven't |
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lost much work yet, thanks to my habit of using vim in screen but otherwise |
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it's frustrating to either boot up a 2nd (non linux) comp or hitting the |
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restart button. |
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It started when I accidentally updated a bunch of packages using ~x86 |
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keywords but I've recompiled xorg and firefox back to their 'stable' |
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versions; sooner or later I'm going to try to recompile everything down to |
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their stable versions but in the meanwhile, any suggestions? |