On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:30:50PM +0000, Phil Perry wrote:
 
> 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.

We also had someone experience this on an SL5 machine in the last few
days - also using nvidia video, using the nvidia driver from ELrepo.

Someone fixed it but the only comment I saw was "Getting GLX working
correctly seems to have solved the problem". I remember hearing
something about the nvidia libglx.so failing to load in the xorg logs,
but I'll ask what the fix really was. It may simply have been
reinstalling the elrepo nvidia driver.

G.
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