Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious freezes when browsing Internet

[Mick]

On Tuesday 06 March 2007 21:22, Philip Webb wrote:
> During the past few months, I've been bit by sudden total freezes
> while using Epiphany & Konqueror to browse Internet sites.
> The only way out is to hit the reset button: eg Ctl-Alt-F2 doesn't work.
>
> At first, I believed it was a bug in Epiphany, which is good to use,
> but not well-supported as KDE & Firefox.  However yesterday,
> it happened in similar circumstances with Konqueror,
> which uses quite different libraries & rendering.
>
> It seems to happen when the browser is downloading images, esp adverts,
> & I simultaneously use the middle mouse button to click or scroll.
> I may have several news stories downloading in different tabs
> & I middle-click on a link to open another tab or scroll down a list
> & one of the other tabs is still downloading extra images.
> This is the only situation in which it happens.
>
> There are Forum threads covering other situations, which don't apply to me,
> & the only thread which is similar is
>
>   http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-521365-highlight-random+freeze.html
>
> which does not offer any helpful advice.
> There are no bugs answering to 'Epiphany freeze' or 'Konqueror freeze'.
>
> I'm using Kernel 2.6.18-gentoo, KDE 3.5.6 , Epiphany 2.16.3 & Xorg-x11 7.1
> . Otherwise, my system is very stable & problem-free.
>
> Has anyone else run into this bizarre phenomenon ?
> Does anyone have useful suggestions ?

The only time I had suffered similar symptoms to what you are describing (but 
with different applications) was when I had a bad memory problem.  No sooner 
had I changed the memory module, the freezes were gone.  Memtest86 did not 
show anything and it was only through trial and error that I found the faulty 
module.

Good luck.
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Regards,
Mick