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Hi All, |
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Something strange happen here. I have seen few things in Linux world |
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but this is very new for me! |
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I have this fantastic browser called Chromium (12.0.742.68) and I |
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really like it. But, sometimes, when I see flash videos on different |
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sites (youtube, cnn, bbc) the whole chromium become frozen and basicly |
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impossible to kill it. (The comfortable way is left click on the |
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taskbar and choose "Close" and KDE takes care of to kill the |
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application. ) I'm aware of I'm using Linux and the Linux desktop and |
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the flash are not the best friends ever. So my usual activity if my |
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browser become frozen by flash is the next: (1), start a konsole, (2), |
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start htop, (3) and kill the process, (4) restart the browser, (5) |
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happy. |
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But, in this case, htop doesn't start. I can see the prompt and the |
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command "htop" but the cursor is disappeared and nothing. Just waiting |
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for something. The konsole doesn't react CTRL-c. I've tried this in |
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xterm terminal and the result was the same. In normal case I examine |
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the htop process by strace but I can't figure out what is the PID |
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number because of ps aux (see below). Usually I'm using strace from |
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htop. |
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I thought "ok, no problem, I'm well experienced linux user and I know |
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there always is another way to kill a process". So, I typed "ps aux | |
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grep chrom" command and the result was the same as htop. I could see |
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the prompt and my command and nothing. The cursor is disappeared and |
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nothing. We waited for something. Here I thought that the X server |
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could be the root cause. I pushed CTRL-DEL-F1 and I thought that "here |
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is my little console and I'm able to do everything". But the result |
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was the same when I wanted to start htop. |
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Here was the point when I became angry and restarted my machine. The |
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restarting process stopped at "Terminating processes" and my machine |
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didn't restart just wait for something for minutes! I had to push |
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reset button after 5 minutes. |
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Strange, isn't? |
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Has anybody any thought, idea what the hell happen? |
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While I wrote this letter Chromium become crazy again - thanks the |
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automatic save few words has lost this letter - and I know that the |
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root cause the Chromium itself and the flash isn't matter. Flash just |
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make faster that process when Chromium become crazy. |
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My plan is the next: |
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- rebuild my whole system because it's necessary. This is a very fresh |
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install and gcc has changed. |
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- step back to earlier version of chromium |
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- try to reproduce this error with another browser |
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- pray to God :) |
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- switch off the computer and read The Wheel of Time series from |
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Robert Jordan :) |
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-- |
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- - |
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-- Csanyi Andras (Sayusi Ando) -- http://sayusi.hu -- |
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http://facebook.com/andras.csanyi |
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-- ""Trust in God and keep your gunpowder dry!" - Cromwell |
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