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2011/6/2 András Csányi <sayusi.ando@×××××.com> |
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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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Those lockups reminds me of hard disks lockups, when nothing works anymore |
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exepct what was already been loaded on RAM. Maybe flash/chrome is writing to |
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a broken area of your disk. Check the HD light, weird noises. Or RAM. I have |
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no such problems of things crashing with flash, but had experienced flash UI |
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lockups in the past. |
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Why don't you test with another browsers? That will help identifying the |
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problem. Check dmesg, too, it might give you some tips of failed disk. |
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My two cents. |
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Good luck. |
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Leonardo. |