2011/6/2 András Csányi <sayusi.a...@gmail.com> > Hi All, > > Something strange happen here. I have seen few things in Linux world > but this is very new for me! > > I have this fantastic browser called Chromium (12.0.742.68) and I > really like it. But, sometimes, when I see flash videos on different > sites (youtube, cnn, bbc) the whole chromium become frozen and basicly > impossible to kill it. (The comfortable way is left click on the > taskbar and choose "Close" and KDE takes care of to kill the > application. ) I'm aware of I'm using Linux and the Linux desktop and > the flash are not the best friends ever. So my usual activity if my > browser become frozen by flash is the next: (1), start a konsole, (2), > start htop, (3) and kill the process, (4) restart the browser, (5) > happy. > But, in this case, htop doesn't start. I can see the prompt and the > command "htop" but the cursor is disappeared and nothing. Just waiting > for something. The konsole doesn't react CTRL-c. I've tried this in > xterm terminal and the result was the same. In normal case I examine > the htop process by strace but I can't figure out what is the PID > number because of ps aux (see below). Usually I'm using strace from > htop. > > I thought "ok, no problem, I'm well experienced linux user and I know > there always is another way to kill a process". So, I typed "ps aux | > grep chrom" command and the result was the same as htop. I could see > the prompt and my command and nothing. The cursor is disappeared and > nothing. We waited for something. Here I thought that the X server > could be the root cause. I pushed CTRL-DEL-F1 and I thought that "here > is my little console and I'm able to do everything". But the result > was the same when I wanted to start htop. > > Here was the point when I became angry and restarted my machine. The > restarting process stopped at "Terminating processes" and my machine > didn't restart just wait for something for minutes! I had to push > reset button after 5 minutes. > > Strange, isn't? > > Has anybody any thought, idea what the hell happen?
Those lockups reminds me of hard disks lockups, when nothing works anymore exepct what was already been loaded on RAM. Maybe flash/chrome is writing to a broken area of your disk. Check the HD light, weird noises. Or RAM. I have no such problems of things crashing with flash, but had experienced flash UI lockups in the past. Why don't you test with another browsers? That will help identifying the problem. Check dmesg, too, it might give you some tips of failed disk. My two cents. Good luck. Leonardo.
