Browser crashes / hard reboot
Hello.
I find that I have to push the power button and do a hard reboot of Taranis two or three times a day.
The suspect appears to be Abrowser (sometimes along with Totem).
Apparently, the program is ATTEMPTING to establish a connection to a website that I have clicked a hyperlink to, but in the interim, I can't browse on any other tab or go to any other website. The browser just "stops".
When I try to kill Abrowser in System Monitor, it doesn't work.
When I tried to kill Abrowser from the terminal, the terminal either would not start, or was in the process of starting and taking a long time to do it. (This might be becuase I had already opened system monitor and had sucked up memory?)
When I try to log out it will say Abrowser in process, but there is nothing I can do. Logging out takes a long long time but I haven't waited.
I can use pidof to find the process ID for Abrowser, and then kill it in the terminal. But again, last time the terminal didn't work.
I've been looking for answers to this. Is it a memory thing or a network thing or both?
Thank you.
Sounds crazy. First, you should learn of the Magic system request, the often cited sequence is REISUB (Raising elephants is so utterly boring) instead of forced power off. It usually works. This might save you from file system corruption. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_sysrq
What kind of hardware are we talking about here? (CPU, RAM, network card) Is that on Trisquel or Trisquel Mini?
If a program abruptly closes, that's a crash. If it just stops, that's a hang.
Abrowser does use large amounts of memory, if viewing large images. This can lead to massive swap usage and subsequent trashing, which looks like a hang.
Hello.
Thank you for the reply. The last paragraph sounds correct for me, as I do
frequently view large images, often while totem is playing an audio stream.
Release 4.1 (Taranis)
Gnome 2.30.2
Hardware:
Memory: 2.9 GiB
Processor 0: Pentium R Dual CoreCPU E5300 @ 2.6 GHz
Processor 1: Pentium R Dual CoreCPU E5300 @ 2.6 GHz
It is a simple "e-machine" not really intended for graphics but for business.
I installed Linux to dual boot with Windows Vista. It was one of my dad's
work computers, and he still needs me to access Windows for his last few
clients.
I can't wait to wipe Windows off of here!
I will check out Magic SysRq key forthwith.
Thank you!
That's a beefier machine than mine. On my 6 years old laptop I have a
uniprocessor 1.8 GHz Turion with 1 gigs of ram.
Large is relative. I can repeatedly view like 5000x5000 px jpgs ok but when
we go higher than that there could be issues.
You might want to try running in safe-mode to see if your browser extensions
are giving you trouble. Start browser from terminal with abrowser -safe-mode.
(with no prior browser windows open, add -no-remote parameter if you have
browser windows open.)
Have you run the memory checker? Might be worth running that overnight, just
in case. Boot off a Trisquel CD and in the grub menu there's a check memory
option. Red means problem.
Don't know what else to suggest, could be a networking issue too.
Thank you. I'll try that memory test tonight.
Abrowser extensions:
Febe
Flash Video Downloader
Flash Video Replacer
NoScript
Trisquel Icecat Modifications
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That's a beefier machine than mine. On my 6 years old laptop I have a uniprocessor 1.8 GHz Turion with 1 gigs of ram.
Large is relative. I can repeatedly view like 5000x5000 px jpgs ok but when we go higher than that there could be issues.
You might want to try running in safe-mode to see if your browser extensions are giving you trouble. Start browser from terminal with abrowser -safe-mode. (with no prior browser windows open, add -no-remote parameter if you have browser windows open.)
Have you run the memory checker? Might be worth running that overnight, just in case. Boot off a Trisquel CD and in the grub menu there's a check memory option. Red means problem.
Don't know what else to suggest, could be a networking issue too.
Thank you. I'll try that memory test tonight.
Abrowser extensions:
Febe
Flash Video Downloader
Flash Video Replacer
NoScript
Trisquel Icecat Modifications
Speaking of RAM, there's the page "about:memory" (type it in the address bar and press enter), where you can see the memory use of Firefox and eventually "Minimize memory usage" with the button at the bottom.