mozilla weirdness

[tommyj27]

ok this is strange, today i've had two seperate computers (my laptop and now my desktop) go apeshit when i try downloading with mozilla. when i try with my laptop xwindows kills completely and restarts. now, when i try with my desktop mozilla just locks up? if it had just been one i would have chalked it up to software flakiness, but two systems?

 

[PT]

A LINUX Virus?

 

[tommyj27]

fuck if i know, a restart fixed it, which is retarded, rebooting is for kernel upgrades.

 

[Luis G]

ok this is strange, today i've had two seperate computers (my laptop and now my desktop) go apeshit when i try downloading with mozilla. when i try with my laptop xwindows kills completely and restarts. now, when i try with my desktop mozilla just locks up? if it had just been one i would have chalked it up to software flakiness, but two systems?

PLEASE, don't call it xwindows !!!!!

It is X Window (singular)

 

[tommyj27]

and more accurately xfree86, but you still knew what i meant, didn't you?

 

[Luis G]

Let's just call it X

 

[Mirlyn]

Let's just call it X

As in xwindows?

 

[tommyj27]

i think that's what he's talking about



X it is, less keystrokes anyways

 

[PostCode]

fuck if i know, a restart fixed it, which is retarded, rebooting is for kernel upgrades.

Did you try restarting the x server first?

 

[tommyj27]

can't remember if i did or not, that would have been the smart thing to do. I think I tried sending sig HUP to gdm, not sure if that completely restarts X or not.

 

[PostCode]

Just go to another term and type in:

init 3

This will drop you to multiuser commandline and shutdown x.

After your back at a prompt as root type in:

init 5

This will bring x back up.


Hope this helps.

 

[tommyj27]

yup, that's what i should have done, unfortunately when you're really hot and tired, logical thinking doesn't always prevail.

 

[Mirlyn]

doesn't ctrl + alt+ backspace do the same thing?