Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

[William Kenworthy]

firefox --help lists a DISPLAY option.  Start it from a console and set
$DISPLAY elsewhere, even remote if thats what it takes ...


BillK


On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 20:53 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> > You should continue to investigate the glibc thing. There was a thread
> > about how it's causing problems for someone running LibreOffice I
> > think.
> >
> > You might also look more at what part of Firefox s causing the lockup.
> > Is it Firefox proper, or is it something caused by your homepage? For
> > instance, if they make use of Flash or Java it could be one of them
> > causing the lockup and not specifically Firefox itself. Can yo erase
> > Firefox preferences so that it opes to a blank page. Does it still
> > lock up. Have you removed all cookies, etc., to see if one of them is
> > causing the problems. Since fluxbox doesn't crash as often you might
> > work there to clean things up and then come back to KDE to see if it
> > has helped.
> >
> > Consider an emerge -C on things you don't absolutely need, like Flash
> > or whatever you're using, to figure out what's involved. Also, are you
> > using Firefox 3 or 4? Consider trying the other.
> >
> > As with other apps, try running Firefox from a terminal and see if it
> > throws any error messages.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> I haven't been ignoring your suggestions but I did try them a bit ago.
> It's in another reply.  Thanks for the suggestions tho.
>
> As for trying to run from a terminal, if I do that, I can't see the
> errors and when the kernel panics, I lose the messages.  Sort of a catch
> 22 here.  Would be nice if I could tho.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

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