Launching abrowser (or icecat) once maks it freeze
I just don't understand what caused that all of a sudden. Whenever I launch abrowser (or icecat) once, the browser window is displayed but stright away it gets blocked. I can't reach any website (that's why I'm writing htis message from another computer right now).
I installed htop and when I use it in a terminal, I can see that there is an incredible number of abrowser instances running at the same time (/usr/lib/abrowser/abrowser), although I launched only one myself. One of the two processors (my laptop is a Macbook) and memory are completely cluttered (which explains why the search in the browser window freezes).
Have you got any idea what is going on ? Where the problem comes from ? And What I can do to solve it ? Thanks a mil for your help. Not being able to surf the web with my everyday computer is a real impediment.
Anything interesting written a terminal emulator if you execute 'abrowser' or 'icecat' in it?
Given your other weird issues, the hardware may be defective. Have you tested your RAM with memtest86+? It is in Trisquel's repository and is to be chosen from GRUB's menu that is displayed if you press the Shift key right after the computer turns on.
If you have not done it yet, make all lines in /etc/grub.d/01_PASSWORD start with the '#' character (you can execute 'gksu gedit /etc/grub.d/01_PASSWORD' to edit the file in GEdit and with administrative privileges), save it then execute 'sudo update-grub'. Otherwise you will be prompted a (useless) GRUB password to launch memtest86+.
The disk can self-test too: click on the "gear" in the upper-right of the "Disks" window (that you can open from the "System Settings") and choose the related entry.
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1.) Can you access the internet in other ways?
Try and download the browser called 'lynx'. It is a text-based browser. In a terminal type:
sudo apt-get install lynx
After installing it, open a terminal and type:lynx www.duckduckgo.com
Then use the up/down arrows to move to the search field, type in something to search, hit the down-arrow to get to the search 'button' and then hit the right-arrow. When you are done just type 'q'
2.) Did either browser work for you before?
3.) When you reboot and check the process list do you see the several instances, or only after you try to run the browser(s)?
4.) What happens if you type either of these in a terminal?:
sudo icecat
sudo abrowser
5.) Does it work after you Update and Upgrade:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Let's get some answers to these questions and then we can try other things like deleting config files, removing/reinstalling the whole package, creating a new user, and so on.
Since I went through that mess :
https://trisquel.info/forum/weird-login-behaviour#comment-92252
I can't see any link with the issue, but my browsers have come back to normal behaviour. I did nothing special for them to work properly again. Thanks for all your suggestions anyway !