On 22/02/13 22:14, Andreas Nowack wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Feb 2013, zxq9 wrote:
>
>> On 02/23/2013 01:24 AM, Mark Stodola wrote:
>>> On 02/22/2013 10:14 AM, Eva Myers wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:40:23AM -0600, Mark Stodola wrote:
>>>>> On 02/22/2013 04:53 AM, Eva Myers wrote:
>>>>>> I have a problem with the new Firefox 17 on SL5 machines with ATI
>>>>>> Radeon X300 graphics cards using the fglrx driver. The X server will
>>>>>> frequently crash when a user attempts to start Firefox, leaving the
>>>>>> computer with its screen black and unresponsive to mouse or keyboard
>>>>>> (the Xorg process just sits there eating CPU). Does anyone know a fix
>>>>>> for this problem?
>>>>>> Eva.
>>>>>
>>>>> This sounds more like a problem with fglrx, are you using the one from
>>>>> ELrepo? I'm still on FF 10ESR here, but under Options/Preferences
>>>>> (they
>>>>> keep changing it I swear!), in the advanced section, general tab, you
>>>>> can uncheck hardware acceleration. See if that alleviates the problem.
>>>>> It may be useful to check your Xorg log files for clues as well.
>
> This firefox problem sounds familiar to me. I saw it with SL 5, Firefox
> 10ESR 64bits, and fglrx from ELrepo frequently. Replacing Firefox 64bits
> with Firefox 32bits helped in my case.
> But in rare cases, Thunderbird 10ESR 64bit causes fglrx to crash as well.
>
> Best regards,
>    Andreas
>

I had X crash yesterday when using the new 17.0.3 Firefox too on EL5 
(32-bit FF on 64-bit OS).

I'm an NVIDIA user - I mention it as I really can't remember the last 
time X crashed for me, and I've been running this box since 5.0. X has 
crashed maybe 5 times at most in 5 years and the box runs permanently 
only rebooting for new kernels. The reason I mention this is I'm more 
inclined to point the finger at the new FF that the graphics driver, at 
least in my case, as that's the component that changed right before the 
crash. I have not been able to reproduce it so have no evidence, just a 
gut feeling. For what it's worth.