[GRLUG] Browsers crash on Kubuntu

[Michael Mol]

Missed the xorg.conf file...

Try changing it to 32-bit or 16-bit color, and see if that helps.
Next, I'd suggest trying switching to a different video driver, to see
if that helps.  Possibly switch to "vesa" from whatever you're
currently running.

Otherwise, it might have something to do with the network libraries or
kernel ethernet driver.  Try reinstalling the relevant package for the
network libraries (I don't know which that is, unfortunately). If that
doesn't help, try switching to a previous kernel version.

On 12/7/06, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I have Kubuntu 6.10 running on a junker
> I picked up at VC Tech Source last summer.
> Works fine but for one highly annoying
> exception.  Browsers crash.  Not just
> wedge,  but cause the system to reboot.
> I'd just write the machine off as a loss but
> for the fact that it works fine in all other
> respects.  e.g.,  it   plays DVDs fine.
>
> The basic question is whether anyone else
> in the group is seeing anything like this?
>
> I've attached the xorg.conf file from the
> system.  The point here is that the default
> color depth appears to be set to 24, which
> some people have reported on the Internet
> cures a similar problem they are having.
> But the xorg.conf has always been set this
> way and doesn't help a bit.
>
> Some other observations:
>
> *  I've run firefox using "firefox -safe-mode",
> to avoid using any plugins.  It still crashes
> eventually,  even though some have suggested
> that it is those same plugins that cause the
> problem when certain web sites are entered.
> And it is a fact that certain web sites will cause
> the problem I am having almost immediately.
>
> *  I've tried several browsers.  Firefox,  Opera,
> Konqueror.  Opera crashes the second I
> launch it.  Konqueror works best,  but only in
> the sense that it takes a while longer before
> the screen wedges or the system reboots.  A
> wedge means that I have to reboot the system.
> The only difference being that in many cases
> the system reboots on its own.
>
>
> In most other ways the machine works fine.
> I can FTP entire OSes,  and do most anything
> as long as it doesn't involve a browser.  But
> that of course a serious limitation.
>
> Does any of this suggest anything to anyone
> that I can look in to?   The machine could be
> defective in some way,  in which case it will
> live out its days in a landfill,  along with all of
> the other Canadian garbage.
>
>   -Bob
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