On 2025-05-12, at 9:58 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi, > > On Mon, 2025-05-12 at 09:55 -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote: >>>> Using LXDE, this time I see content in the windows. But as soon as >>>> I click on a menu I get a hard desktop lockup, my remote ssh session >>>> disconnects, and the windfarm fans go to 100%. >>>> >>>> No messages in the terminal window. >>>> >>>> So then I power cycle. >>>> >>>> >>>> I like MATE anyway — it’s just a bit slower in use that LXDE I find. >>>> But better than crashing. >>> >>> I wouldn't really expect the window manager to have any impact on how >>> Firefox behaves. Did you try tweaking the settings (GPU acceleration etc)? >> >> >> Yes, me neither. But there we are. Also a bad crash using FIrefox with >> OpenBox. >> Only MATE is working for me -- for whatever reason. >> >> While in MATE, I opened Firefox 138 and disabled HW acceleration, and the >> rebooted into LXDE. Firefox 138 had the same bad crash (lockup, have >> power cycle to restart) as usual. > > Was there any backtrace after the crash when running from the terminal? > > We need to know where it crashed. If possible, a gdb backtrace would > be helpful. > I'll see if I can get it to run under gdb. It's a deep, hard crash -- entire system locked up, no way to reboot, can't log in via SSH, nothing. And nothing displayed in the terminal window to indicate what happened. Ken
