Good evening,
I have a very strange issue with kernel 4.19.1 With this kernel Firefox no longer plays any videos. It opens the page but the video wont play. It gets even worse when I open another tab. This will freeze Firefox though system load is ok. But I cannot kill Firefox, even logging off and on will keep it running in the background. Only way to stop it is a reboot and shutdown will take approx 10 to 15 mins for various stop jobs running. just downgraded to Kernel 4.18.19 and things are fine. I'm running Gnome on a Thinkpad X201.
KR Frank
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:54:39 +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
I cannot kill Firefox
Hi,
how do you try to kill firefox? What happens if you run
killall -9 --verbose firefox
?
Regards, Ralf
Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2018, 18:18 +0100 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via arch- general:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:54:39 +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
I cannot kill Firefox
Hi,
how do you try to kill firefox? What happens if you run
killall -9 --verbose firefox
?
Regards, Ralf
I've tried killall firefox and kill -9 PID. Will wait for 4.19.2 before giving this kernal another try, now happy with 4.18.16
KR Frank
On 14/11/2018 17.54, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
Good evening,
I have a very strange issue with kernel 4.19.1 With this kernel Firefox no longer plays any videos. It opens the page but the video wont play. It gets even worse when I open another tab. This will freeze Firefox though system load is ok. But I cannot kill Firefox, even logging off and on will keep it running in the background. Only way to stop it is a reboot and shutdown will take approx 10 to 15 mins for various stop jobs running. just downgraded to Kernel 4.18.19 and things are fine. I'm running Gnome on a Thinkpad X201.
KR Frank
Just another data point: (Might be related, might not...)
I'm seeing something similar with 4.19.1, though it doesn't completely crash it just casues all GUI operations (even just switching windows) to become *really* sluggish until I reboot the machine. At that point firefox gets so slow that it's basically unusable -- this might be experienced as it having hung on a slower machine. I am able to quit it with regular Ctrl+Q though.
Downgrading to 4.18.19 seems to fix it for me.
(Running KDE on a Radeon GPU.)
Regards,
On 14/11/2018 19.54, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
On 14/11/2018 17.54, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
Good evening,
I have a very strange issue with kernel 4.19.1 With this kernel Firefox no longer plays any videos. It opens the page but the video wont play. It gets even worse when I open another tab. This will freeze Firefox though system load is ok. But I cannot kill Firefox, even logging off and on will keep it running in the background. Only way to stop it is a reboot and shutdown will take approx 10 to 15 mins for various stop jobs running. just downgraded to Kernel 4.18.19 and things are fine. I'm running Gnome on a Thinkpad X201.
KR Frank
Just another data point: (Might be related, might not...)
I'm seeing something similar with 4.19.1, though it doesn't completely crash it just casues all GUI operations (even just switching windows) to become *really* sluggish until I reboot the machine. At that point firefox gets so slow that it's basically unusable -- this might be experienced as it having hung on a slower machine. I am able to quit it with regular Ctrl+Q though.
Downgrading to 4.18.19 seems to fix it for me.
(Running KDE on a Radeon GPU.)
Regards,
Archlinux stock kernel went from 4.18.16 to 4.19 , where did you get 4.18.19 ?
linux 4.19.2 is now in [testing] repo, you could try that.
Lone_Wolf
I have a very strange issue with kernel 4.19.1 With this kernel Firefox no longer plays any videos. It opens the page but the video wont play.
what video? youtube?
works well here, on intel i7-7500U, KDE on X11 (modesetting driver) with both 4.19.1-arch1 and 4.19.2-arch1
I'm running Gnome on a Thinkpad X201.
are you running wayland, modsettings or the intel X11 driver (the X modesetting is perhaps recommended)
maybe try another compositor, instead of the gnome one
Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2018, 22:13 +0100 schrieb Damjan Georgievski via arch-general:
I have a very strange issue with kernel 4.19.1 With this kernel Firefox no longer plays any videos. It opens the page but the video wont play.
what video? youtube?
works well here, on intel i7-7500U, KDE on X11 (modesetting driver) with both 4.19.1-arch1 and 4.19.2-arch1
I'm running Gnome on a Thinkpad X201.
are you running wayland, modsettings or the intel X11 driver (the X modesetting is perhaps recommended)
Wayland
maybe try another compositor, instead of the gnome one
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