On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 11:14 +0800, Handsome Cheung wrote:
hi all,
I am a newbie for ArchLinux.
My computer often shuts down suddenly when I browse web site. It brings me to TTY and said "The system is going down for system halt NOW!". I found that is because of the crash of flash plugin of firefox.
And my question is why the crash of firefox can cause my computer shuts down?
PS. my system environment: Arch + awesome, no DE. Thanks!
hc
Hi, Well it seesm like you are not the only one with this problem. I think I experience the same, although with a slightly different setup and therefore alternate consequences. I am running gnome on my 32bit Arch Linux machine, with a ati graphics-card. Sometimes firefox crashes and gnome restarts. No complete shutdown in my case, but I have to login again. However this only happens with the flash-plugin being enabled. Unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce the problem, it occurs without any pattern (At least none which I could discover). However, i therefore installed flashblock on firefox. Since then I havn't experienced this problem again. Therefore I think that your shutdown (my gnome restart) is definitly caused by flashplugin+firefox itself. Overheating or strange scripts, aren't the problem in my case (I am sure, since it is a pretty standard install and the temps are ok). Currently I was waiting for the next update to eventually fix the problem (since I can live without flash). But eventually someone has some clues of how to troubleshoot this (Is there any firefox stacktrace???). Thanks, any advice is appreciated Benedikt