[Solved] Flash+Firefox regularly freeze the system

I'm not quite sure which forum to post this in, but this seems right.
With reasonable regularity, my whole system freezes, almost to a complete halt. The freeze itself seems to take 5-10 seconds, during which time I can switch between windows, interact etc., but in the end everything stops. I can usually switch to a tty but it takes 2-8 minutes from I press ctrl-alt-f2 until it appears. If I kill Firefox, eventually I can return to work again.
dmesg has this:
[356927.994259] Out of memory: Kill process 1468 (firefox) score 298 or sacrifice child
[356927.994640] Killed process 1701 (plugin-containe) total-vm:794732kB, anon-rss:109672kB, file-rss:0kB
so I guess the plugin-container is to blame.
I recently had Linux Mint and Ubuntu installed on the same computer, none of which had this problem.
Can someone suggest ways to solve the problem (and I don't count "Don't watch Youtube while you're working" as a valid solution)?
Last edited by eyolf (2014-08-27 18:15:31)

Here's the output with a youtube video running in the background:
# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3957 3400 556 33 72 719
-/+ buffers/cache: 2609 1347
Swap: 0 0 0
# smem -kt
PID User Command Swap USS PSS RSS
6147 eyolf dbus-launch --sh-syntax --e 0 284.0K 284.0K 288.0K
11717 eyolf ./words 0 380.0K 380.0K 388.0K
6229 eyolf /bin/sh /usr/bin/gnome-do 0 416.0K 416.0K 428.0K
9247 eyolf /bin/sh -c set -- '/home/ey 0 424.0K 424.0K 436.0K
11716 eyolf /bin/bash /usr/bin/words 0 428.0K 428.0K 440.0K
13289 eyolf /bin/sh -c set -- '/home/ey 0 428.0K 428.0K 440.0K
871 eyolf /usr/lib/systemd/systemd -- 0 620.0K 620.0K 648.0K
8579 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-metadat 0 624.0K 624.0K 656.0K
6281 eyolf /usr/lib/GConf/gconfd-2 0 672.0K 749.0K 2.3M
25061 eyolf /usr/lib/pulse/gconf-helper 0 800.0K 800.0K 832.0K
6153 eyolf /usr/lib/dconf/dconf-servic 0 868.0K 868.0K 900.0K
6166 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd 0 816.0K 920.0K 3.5M
10819 eyolf /bin/bash /usr/bin/yaourt i 0 968.0K 968.0K 980.0K
6185 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse /r 0 1.0M 1.0M 1.1M
8255 eyolf htop 0 1.1M 1.1M 2.6M
6148 eyolf /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork 0 1.0M 1.2M 2.5M
8251 eyolf -zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
9419 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
12072 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
9141 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
9321 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
11853 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
11064 eyolf zsh 0 1.8M 1.8M 1.8M
18564 eyolf zsh 0 2.0M 2.0M 2.1M
6204 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-udisks2- 0 2.1M 2.3M 5.3M
12359 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 2.4M 5.4M
13214 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 2.4M 5.6M
11996 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http -- 0 3.1M 3.1M 3.2M
6248 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-trash - 0 3.4M 3.5M 6.7M
25054 eyolf /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start 0 4.1M 5.2M 9.2M
3832 eyolf mocp 0 5.3M 5.3M 5.4M
15345 eyolf python2 /usr/bin/smem -kt 0 9.6M 9.8M 12.1M
9225 eyolf /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin 0 13.8M 13.8M 13.8M
6226 eyolf /usr/lib/mate-polkit/polkit 0 14.5M 14.7M 17.9M
13216 eyolf /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin 0 13.7M 14.8M 20.0M
6140 eyolf mate-session 0 14.7M 14.9M 19.1M
6272 eyolf /usr/lib/mate-panel/notific 0 14.7M 15.1M 21.2M
6216 eyolf mate-screensaver 0 15.1M 15.2M 17.7M
12074 eyolf /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin 0 16.1M 16.8M 19.4M
11855 eyolf vim 0 17.3M 17.3M 17.4M
9421 eyolf vim 0 17.3M 17.3M 17.4M
6222 eyolf mate-power-manager 0 17.0M 17.5M 23.8M
6218 eyolf mate-volume-control-applet 0 17.1M 17.6M 22.9M
6270 eyolf /usr/lib/mate-panel/clock-a 0 17.9M 19.1M 29.4M
9248 eyolf vim -- /home/eyolf/.vimrc 0 19.2M 19.2M 19.3M
9285 eyolf /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin 0 20.6M 21.2M 24.0M
6268 eyolf /usr/lib/mate-panel/wnck-ap 0 20.5M 21.3M 31.8M
6159 eyolf marco 0 21.3M 22.9M 33.2M
6227 eyolf nm-applet 0 21.9M 23.3M 29.3M
15027 eyolf /usr/bin/gvim -f /tmp/vimpe 0 21.4M 26.7M 59.7M
15250 eyolf /usr/bin/gvim -f /tmp/vimpe 0 21.4M 26.9M 60.1M
9315 eyolf mate-terminal 0 26.1M 27.7M 39.9M
12779 eyolf caja 0 22.4M 29.9M 65.3M
6157 eyolf /usr/lib/mate-settings-daem 0 27.3M 31.0M 41.6M
6164 eyolf mate-panel 0 31.0M 31.8M 40.6M
12345 eyolf vidalia 0 62.9M 68.4M 103.3M
6261 eyolf mono /usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.e 0 94.8M 95.5M 105.8M
14331 eyolf luakit 0 111.2M 120.1M 160.8M
12638 eyolf /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-con 0 118.7M 134.2M 179.2M
13290 eyolf zathura -- /home/eyolf/doku 0 132.5M 136.8M 145.3M
14386 eyolf thunderbird 0 262.2M 269.1M 307.7M
12373 eyolf /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 0 742.3M 760.5M 812.4M
62 1 0 2.0G 2.1G 2.5G

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Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant mds[34]: (/Volumes/Stability Test/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V1/Stores/1A194423-2C4A-4DB5-8EFA-4AABCA422310)(Erro r) IndexCI in openPayload:open err: 6, 0.indexPositions
Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant kernel[0]:
Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant fseventsd[40]: event logs in /Volumes/Stability Test 1/.fseventsd out of sync with volume. destroying old logs. (518 1 1527)
Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant kernel[0]: jnl: disk4s3: dojnlio: strategy err 0x6
Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant fseventsd[40]: log dir: /Volumes/Stability Test 1/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 3FDB756A-ADEB-4531-821A-CBA1C2D273FE
Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant kernel[0]: jnl: disk4s3: writejournalheader: error writing the journal header!
Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant /usr/sbin/spindump[20189]: process 20184 is being no longer being monitored
Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant kernel[0]: disk4s3: media is not present.
Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant kernel[0]:
Dec 10 09:37:06: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant kernel[0]: jnl: disk4s3: dojnlio: strategy err 0x6
Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant kernel[0]: jnl: disk4s3: end_transaction: only wrote 0 of 61952 bytes to the journal!
Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant kernel[0]: disk4s3: media is not present.
Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant kernel[0]:
Dec 10 09:37:06: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 10 09:37:06 Defiant kernel[0]: disk4s3: media is not present.
Dec 10 09:37:07 Defiant kernel[0]:
Dec 10 09:37:07: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 10 09:37:07 Defiant kernel[0]: disk4s3: media is not present.
Dec 10 09:37:07 Defiant kernel[0]:
Dec 10 09:37:07: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 10 09:37:07 Defiant kernel[0]: disk4s3: media is not present.
Dec 10 09:37:07 Defiant kernel[0]:
Dec 10 09:37:07: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 10 09:37:07 Defiant kernel[0]: disk4s3: media is not present.
Dec 10 09:37:07 Defiant kernel[0]:
Dec 10 09:37:09: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 10 09:37:09 Defiant kernel[0]: disk4s3: media is not present.
Dec 10 09:37:09 Defiant kernel[0]:
Dec 10 09:37:09: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Dec 10 09:37:09 Defiant kernel[0]: jnl: disk4s3: close: journal 0x40e2a28, is invalid. aborting outstanding transactions
I see the "I/O Error" above... but don't believe its the disk. Again, completely different disks, both confirmed working on a G5 iMac, cause my MacBook Pro 17" C2D to stop responding, both running Leopard.
Any ideas as to what's wrong? Or even better, how to fix it? It'd be really nice to use my USB drive for Time Machine, FW for temporary storage, and my eSATA disks for high-speed temporary stuff... instead of using an eSATA disk for Time Machine...

Me again. I think I have solved and/or understood the USB problems I have seen.
The issue of the external drive 'ticking' may indicate a lack of bus power, according to various other threads in this forum. There also seem to be differences between left and right USB ports. My external drive does not mount at all when plugged into the left USB port, even though the power light is on.
I was still getting an intermittent problem with the drive plugged into the right hand port. This appears to have been fixed by reformatting the drive in a different way, creating a single Partition rather than using Erase in Disk Utility. I have also disabled Spotlight indexing on the backup disk: maybe that's what really fixed it?
The other observation I have is that the drive only seems to work if the cable is connected to the computer first, then to the drive.

Laptop lid closed freezes the system after xorg update

Hello! After the recent xorg-server update one of the problems I got was that when I close the lid of my laptop (it is configured to turn off the screen) the system just freezes and the screen never turns on again... I try to change TTY, press ctrl-alt-bkspc, even press 1 time the poweroff button (that usually shuts down the system gently) but nothing happens. Anyone with the same problem?

Interestingly enough, on a fresh boot, Xorg runs in tty8, instead of running in the usual tty7. It also takes very long to come up after the boot sequence. Could it be that it's crashing and then running another instance immediately after?
Anybody else have something similar?
Last edited by Mystal (2008-12-21 16:54:17)

Changing input language freezes the system

Hello,
when switching from one input language to the other in a time period of one minute or less, the system freezes for 30 seconds and sometimes even more.
Has anyone ever had such an issue?
Any ideas what causing the system to freeze?
Thanks in advance,
Konstantinos

I wish there was a native one for MacOS X
For what it's worth, there are some available via CocoAspell and OpenOffice 2.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries
But I am stumped about your freezing problem....
I wonder if you would have the same issue with a different polytonic keyboard. Here are a couple
http://www.sourcecod.com/sophokeys/
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/font/mackeyboard.htm

Console.app and Terminal freezing the system.

Dear Apple Inc.,
Recently I noticed opening Terminal takes 3-4 minutes, with system completely frozen at that time. Trying to open Console and check system logs freezes system completely on each log update - I could not use any software (including the Console itself) until I exit Console.app.
I tried to check & fix hard drive errors, fix permissions, disable/clear Spotlight index and other similar "common to check" fixes. Nothing helped.
Mac Model: MacBook 6,1
OS version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D578) All updates are installed (up to date 2010-05-17).
Here is short workaround to the bug that is STILL not fixed: http://www.webapper.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/26/consoleapp-freezes-on-launch-t erminalapp-slow-to-launch/
Please note that bug appears even on SMALL log sizes, like several megabytes, and makes the system completely unusable.

macjack wrote:
Deleting logs in /private/var/log/asl/* helped.
How did it help?
Console and Terminal start instantly and work without problems.
Btw, during these freezes most applications start to write error reports to the logs...
great share the salient portions with us.
But you're not telling us what you've tried...
Did you try deleting the plists?
Did you try starting in Safe Mode?
Give us some stuff to go on....
Deleting plists: no.
Starting in Safe mode: no, but I started in Single user mode to run fsck just to be sure. It reported no errors. And terminal was working just fine.
Unfortunately I deleted the logs that were causing the problems. Next time it happens I will try all suggested actions and post results. Hope it happens again so I could help.

Pulseaudio freezes the system

Dear all
I've got the following problem. Randomly GNOME3 completely freezes (I am able to move the mouse pointer but any click I make has no effect). Since the system freezes I'm able to see the precise hour in the Gnome3 top panel. Consulting the log contained in /var/log/errors.log I see that every time the system freezes the log contains the following error:
May 14 21:27:23 VGPORT01 pulseaudio[1674]: module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
May 14 21:27:23 VGPORT01 pulseaudio[1674]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="29" name="platform-thinkpad_acpi" card_name="alsa_card.platform-thinkpad_acpi" tsched=yes ignore_dB=no card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
May 14 21:27:26 VGPORT01 pulseaudio[1740]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
The error is however impossible to be reproduced with precision since it seems that it appears randomly even if i'm not using any audio player. If it helps I can tell you that I made a fresh net install of my system and I'm using a T60 Lenovo laptop.
Thank you in advance.

Can pulseaudio be uninstalled with GNOME3? If so, try removing pulseaudio. If you still get freezes then the problem won't be pulseaudio. Instead it will be either the drivers, alsa, or your hardware. You can also try to use oss instead of alsa. If you can't remove pulseaudio try using another desktop environment that allows you to control it. I don't propose a fix for the problem. It is just what I would do in this situation to try to target the problem more accurately.

I have fixed the cookies problem. I uninstalled Firefox and rebooted the system

This was the first time that I rebooted the system before I reinstalled Firefox. Everything works fine now.

Hello again,
Whenever i click on something (for example to windows media player, explorer new window etc.), the fan speeds up for 1 seconds and gets low again.
In this review, it's is clearly told that the fan gets up and down very often.
''The fan on this laptop, while having the ability to spin slowly, likes to quickly ramp up at the slightest temperature increase. It also has no delay, causing the fan to quickly speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down, etc. This started to drive me up the wall when some programs were running. I am hoping a BIOS fix comes around to mellow out the fan''
That is exactly what I am complain about.
The whole review can be found here:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3749&review=Lenovo+N200

Playing videos freezes the system, but 3D games are 100% stable

Since I have gotten this RMA'd motherboard back I have weird problems with it, even though the same components were used in the Msi K9a2 Platinum board without issues.
The problem is when playing certain videos on the net the system will ocasionally freeze and very rarely will even freeze when fast forwarding videos in KMPLAYER. I just get a black screen and the FAN on the GPU starts spinning at 100%.
this is a one of the videos that the problems sometimes happens when in full screen:
http://talent.24ur.com/multimedia/oddaje/slovenija-ima-talent-7-oddaja.html
The weird thing about it is that I have run over night 3DMark 06 and Vantage, Memtest 86+, Intel Burn Test, OCCT all without errors. I can even play games such as GTA4, Far Cry 2, ... for hours without system crashing.
What I have tried so far:
reinstalled OS on the other drive
tried it with only 1 stick of RAM
loaded bios failsafe defaults
updated bios
increased voltages by a notch on everything
putted the GPU into the other PCI x16 slot
unplugged every non essential component from the PC
ps. needless to say everything is set to stock speed.
btw. This is the screenshot of the HWMONITOR with Orthos running in the background, check out the low voltage on the 3.3V and 12V rail. Is this normal?

Quote from: Bas on 07-May-10, 01:56:22
Download the video instead of viewing it online.
Online speed is never guaranteed to be stable.
Also never heard of KMPLAYER.
what has that got to do with freezing the PC? KMPLAYER is a BSPLAYER alternative. The problem happens in BSPLAYER too.

Since upgrading firefox why is the system slowed down to the point of frustration i.e scrolling upand down , clicking on pages it seems to take an age

even filling this form in has taken a lot longer than just clicking and typing ,scrolling down a page it seems to pause then stutters . if i have various web pages open to compare something similair it seems to be slowing down . To write this some of the actions to write seems to halt and i am not a fast typer .just tried your installed plugins window it wont move

Possibly something in the profile got damaged. You could try troubleshooting.
* https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting
I am seeing more and more of these complaints since Mozilla began trying to force updates. I think it is time to disable updates to Firefox and avoid the use of the "Check for Updates" button (since it no longer merely checks). You can see the current release version on the green button on this page:
* http://sjc.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

[Solved] Flash+Firefox regularly freeze the system

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