On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 16:14 +0100, [log in to unmask] wrote: > Dear Scientific Linux users, > > Since few days, the computers from our lab running under SL 5.7 - 64 > bits experience all the same bug that prevents using applications such > as: firefox, thunderbid, glxgears, glxinfo. > The update policy is based on the default configuration. > The bug seems to result from a recent update, maybe end of October > (more info on the recent updates in the enclosed yum.log). > > The easiest way to reproduce this bug is to execute glxinfo. The > outcome is that the screen turns black and the session restarts. Since > this bug was first noticed under firefox and thunderbird, a "strace" > was executed on those applications and it turned out that the bug was > labeled as "Error 104" which indicates a restart by the X server. If > you are interested, you may find enclosed more information. > > Has this problem been reported by other institutes or users? Did you reinstall the Nvidia driver after the update to xorg-x11-server-Xorg on 17/10? -- Mark Whidby Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix) Physics/Chemistry/EAES/Mathematics Team IT Services, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences