[GRLUG] Browsers crash on Kubuntu

[Michael Mol]

On 12/7/06, Roberto Villarreal <rvillarreal at mktec.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 07 December 2006 4:51 am, Bob Kline 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.
>
> In addition to everyone else's suggestions, if feasible, try ssh-ing into your
> box after it 'crashes'.  Lately I've been having a problem where my machine
> seems to freeze up (and ctrl-alt-backspace, ctrl-alt-delete, changing to
> another virtual terminal, etc. don't work), but I am able to ssh in and
> witness X magically sucking up about 3GB (real + swap) of my memory...
> killing it remotely brings my box back to life.  I still haven't solved my
> problem, but if you verify that your box truly is locked versus just being
> unresponsive locally, it may help figuring out the problem...

By default, Ubuntu disables incoming SSH.  I imagine the same is true
with Kubuntu.

Annoying, really.  And I haven't had the time to look up how to fix it.

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