[ale] latest firefox tends to crash on CentOS 4.4 or is it the aged hardware is going?

[Jerry Yu]

none of the above, actually. It was the java plugin I copied to my
~/.mozilla/plugins this morning. I should have used the libjavaplugin_oji.so
under ns610-gcc32/ instead of the ns610/.
Strace showed nothing but immediately death. Horrible death too. I consumed
java plugins of wrong version before. It simply resulted in that the applet
wouldn't run, but never had this kind of horrible & silent death.

On 10/3/06, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I use CentOS 4.4 as my main desktop at work, with all the latest patches
> (yum often!)  This morning, when I clicked to exit the wiki page at
> devcental site for F5.com, the Firefox crashed. I checked no left-over
> processes  before I restarted FireFox.  Pointing to gmail.com or
> dealsea.com would just crash the browser right away. To no avail, many
> times of restarting firefox and crashing at first browsing attempt.
> I 'power' off the boxen, since it hadn't been rebooted since CentOS 4.2anyway.  I heard the disks stopped spinning (an old Gateway 500 mid tower)
> but the screen stayed at the Gnome Desktop w/o mouse/kbd?!  I pressed the
> power button to reset it. The boxen came up w/o complains. At first launch
> of Firefox, it crashed right away, with ' dealsea.com' site. This time,
> gmail didn't crash, so I can compose this email.
> Before I go down my own troubleshooting route, anybody experienced similar
> problems with the latest FireFox on RHEL 4.4 or CentOS 4.4 ?
>
> RPM : firefox-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.centos4
> About: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060915
> CentOS/1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.centos4 Firefox/1.5.0.7 pango-text
> OS: Linux mybox 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL #1 Tue Aug 22 23:56:05 CDT 2006 i686 i686
> i386 GNU/Linux
>
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