Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crash

Hi,

Thank you for your suggestion. I will try that next time. But I know that the system can still play music by using other application.
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On 01:01 Wed 18 Jul     , Alex Schuster wrote:
> twang.umn@×××××.com writes:
>
> > I am a newbie to gentoo. These days I met a serious problem for me.
> > When I using firefox to browse youtube.com, it always crashed. Even
> > worse, the system will crash, not just the X, because I cannot login
> > again after use "ctr+alt+backspace". And I cannot get any error message
> > about this problem( maybe I dont know how to get that message). But I
> > can use console still.
>
> Sometimes when killing X ist is not automatically restarted on my systems,
> maybe you need to run /etc/init.d/xdm restart from a text console to make
> this work.
> Instead of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, I would use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go directly to a
> text console. There I would have a look at the at the last lines
> of /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the output of "top", maybe this shows
> something like a nspluginviewer process gone wild which you can kill.
> Also try to kill firefox, will X work fine again then? Use Ctrl-Alt-F7 to
> go back to the X screen.
>
> > Another problem happening togather with the above one is that I cannot
> > use mpd since the system crashed.
>
> Do other sound applications work, does "ls > /dev/sound/dsp" work and
> produce a sound?
>
> 	Alex
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Teng Wang
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University of Minnesota, TC
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Tue Jul 17 18:10:37 CDT 2007

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