Greetings. My firefox also freezes the entire system and creates near-horizontal bars on the screen. My graphic card is NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) exactly the same as Francisco Stefano Wechsler's and Jacques Belin's graphic cards. Actually I am using antix 13.1 and not ubuntu :-) And I am not reporting a bug :-) But when I google "GeForce 6150SE linux crash" or "GeForce 6150SE firefox crash" this page comes up high, and I suspect that more than a few GeForce models cause the same problem (please google), so I'd like to share my half-solutions here. My apologies if this is inappropriate in this forum.
A fresh install of antix 13.1 works fine. However the symptoms described by Greg Supina begin to appear once libgl1-mesa-dri is installed. These symptoms go away if " nouveau.modeset=0" is appended to the kernel line in grub's menu.lst , as suggested by http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=435313 However the resolution is reduced to 1024x768. These symptoms also go away if " nouveau.noaccel=1" is appended to the kernel line in grub's menu.lst , as suggested by http://gentoo-en.vfose.ru/wiki/Nouveau Resolution is high (1920x1080) and there are no more crashes. However, vlc full screen freezes X but ctrl-alt-backspace can kill X. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1176062 Title: System usually crashes when starting Firefox and/or Thunderbird Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When starting up either Firefox or Thunderbird,the system freezes. First the cursor usually freezes and no input is possible, but the desktop display remains, sometimes for a few seconds. Then a pattern of horizontal bars appears on the screen. The bars are about two or three inches wide and about an eighth of an inch high, in various shades of color or black and white. Each thin horizontal bar looks like it is a sliver copied from the display picture that existed on the screen before the crash. System almost always crashes when I click on an e-mail link in Thunderbird, as soon as the system attempts to start up the Firefox browser. System frequently crashes if I attempt to start up either Firefox or Thunderbird after I have previously run the other application. So, if I run Thunderbird and close it, then try to run Firefox, a crash occurs. Or if I run Firefox and close it, then try to run Thunderbird, I get a crash. System occasionally crashes the first time I try to run either Firefox or Thunderbird, even when I have never opened either application previously during the session. Basically, I can only use either Firefox or Thunderbird once, or sometimes twice, per session, before the system freezes and requires a cold boot. However, the system sometimes crashes without opening Firefox/Thunderbird, please see comment 7 for more details. System crashed after leaving it for a few hours. The screen saver blanked out the screen by that time, I move the cursor, the application I had been using appeared briefly (it was a Sudoko game I had been playing a few hours earlier), then the lines appeared in its place and the system froze. Pressing Alt+SysRq+1 followed by Alt+SysRq+t does nothing. It is a total system freeze and requires a cold boot. Problem began after installing upgrade to Ubuntu 13.04 (raring). My system is: Ubuntu 13.04 (raring) Gnome 3.6.3 Kernel 3.8.0-19 generic GCC Version 1.13.3 CPU Athentic AMD Model AMD Athlon 7850 Dual-Core Graphics Card: NVIDIA C61 (GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a) --- ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: greg 1507 F.... pulseaudio CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found. CurrentDmesg: [ 21.346507] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver [ 23.736201] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X [ 23.736231] forcedeth 0000:00:07.0 eth0: MSI enabled [ 24.695822] init: smbd main process (784) killed by HUP signal [ 24.695845] init: smbd main process ended, respawning DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=b412675c-8884-448d-9fd3-17bc96318eea InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-01 (210 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1) IwConfig: eth0 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions. Lsusb: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04a9:2206 Canon, Inc. CanoScan N650U/N656U Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:00cb Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse v2.0 Bus 002 Device 004: ID 03eb:3301 Atmel Corp. at43301 4-Port Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name MarkForUpload: True Package: linux (not installed) ProcFB: 0 nouveaufb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-23-generic root=UUID=f0914b6a-90d7-4c75-95c1-afe10214cb3a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-23.34-generic 3.8.11 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.8.0-23-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.8.0-23-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.106 RfKill: Tags: raring Uname: Linux 3.8.0-23-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-25 (35 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo dmi.bios.date: 05/19/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 0704 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: M2N68-AM SE2 dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0704:bd05/19/2009:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnM2N68-AMSE2:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.name: System Product Name dmi.product.version: System Version dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1176062/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
