On 12/27/24 7:41 PM, George at Clug wrote:
On Saturday, 28-12-2024 at 08:08 Frank McCormick wrote:
I am running Trixie full updated.
I have been having lockups quite often running Firefox under the latest
kernel.
My wife has been experiencing Firefox lockups on Debian Bookworm (KDE Plasma
when using either Wayland or X11, we tested the issue on both).
Please read my below comments and let me know if there is any similarity, or if
you have been able to detect any pattern about how the issue occurs.
(lockup - Total non response from the PC, not even pressing the power button
for three seconds initiates a shutdown)
Sounds like my machine - even alt-sysreq reisub is helpless .
The lock ups were so annoying she have given up using Firefox, and now uses
Chromium.
The lockup usually occured when a web page changes, for example when new ad is being
automatically displayed, or opening a new page in a tab. Opening a page can be to a page
that can be opened without causing an issue, but this instance of "opening"
causes the PC to freeze.
The lockup can occur when she was not using the web page, but noticed the a web
page changing a displayed ad.
I have since realized that it's not only Firefox its locking up - I
was in the middle of writing up a bug report when the machine locked tight.
And now I've seen it happening in Thunderbird. It seems entirely random
but usually happens quite soon after boot.
After a reboot, the Ext4 partition has to be repaired, automatically by the
login process. My concern is if this happens too frequently, data on the disk
drive may become unrepairable, requiring a reinstallation of the OS.
Yes I am faced with that also.
I like the idea put forward of having a ssh connection open. But I would need
to start the ssh session from another PC every day we start her PC, just
waiting for the one time it locks up.
My problem with SSH is I don't have another machine to use and try.
--
Frank McCormick
