[Tfug] thesaurus.com restarts xorg/gdm!

[Dave Thompson]

I had a similar problem with RHEL Desktop. Some specific sites (TracHacks is
the only one I remember) would consistently kill X when visited with
Firefox. I don't think there's any Flash on TracHacks, so it may be
different, but it was Firefox related. Ironically, I fixed the problem by
moving to Ubuntu, but you might want to try out Chrome, as it's much, much
faster than Firefox anyway. I told the Firefox people it was a bug, and they
told that it was a X.org problem. The X.org people told me it was a Firefox
problem....

-Dave

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Jeremy D Rogers
<jdrogers at northwestern.edu>wrote:

> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Phil Simpson <pgsimpso at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Which version of Flash are you using?
> >
> > Is the OS 64 bit?  If yes, are you using nspluginwrapper with 32 bit
> > Flash or are you using the 64 bit beta version?
>
> If I'm not mistaken, both debian and ubuntu have moved away from
> nspluginwrapper.. which is in some ways a pitty, since I could always
> restart that without restarting the browser on my x64 laptop.
>
> But in any case, the point is moot since the laptop in question is
> 32bit. With 10.04, the 'package' to install flashplugin is actually
> just a script called flashplugin-installer which downloads and
> installs the latest from adobe.
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/flashplugin-installer
>
> I'll check when I get home which version of flashplugin is installed
> if it matters that much, but Ive come to expect bugs and crashes in
> flash and even the browser. What I am really concerned about here is
> that it took down X. That should never happen. To me, it almost as bad
> as having an unprivileged user on a server who runs a bit of fortran
> that manages to crash/reboot the system.
>
> Thanks,
> JDR
>
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