[svlug] Firefox/Thunderbird closing

[Jeff Frost]

The only thing I have different in mine is the stack size.  Mine is 10240, but 
I'm not setting that explicity, so it must be a fedora core default.

I thought you might not have an unlimited virtual memory size (-v) and that 
might be what's killing you.  Let us know if you get any reasonable output 
after starting it from a terminal.

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Skip Evans wrote:

> Hey Jeff & all,
>
> I launch it from the Fluxbox menu you get when you
> right click in the background of the workspace.
> Don't have Gnome or KDE loaded.
>
> Here is the output from 'ulimit -a'
>
> sevans at skip:~$ ulimit -a
> core file size        (blocks, -c) 0
> data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
> max locked memory     (kbytes, -l) unlimited
> max memory size       (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files                    (-n) 1024
> pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 8
> stack size            (kbytes, -s) 8192
> cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes            (-u) unlimited
> virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited
>
> Do you see any adjustments I can make?
>
> I'll launch from from a terminal and leave it open
> to see what ouput I get.
>
> Skip
>
> Jeff Frost wrote:
>> It might be a ulimit problem as those two apps are notorious for using
>> lots of RAM.  Are you starting them from a terminal or starting them via
>> an icon in the gnome/kde menu?  If you start it from a terminal and
>> leave that terminal open till it crashes, you'll likely get some output
>> on the terminal as to why.
>>
>> What's the output of 'ulimit -a'?
>>
>> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Skip Evans wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I have two Debian workstations running a 2.6
>>> kernel and on both them Firefox and Thunderbird
>>> will just close at seemingly random times.
>>>
>>> Thunderbird began doing it first one one of them
>>> and I tried reinstalling it, but that didn't fix
>>> it, and now both applications are doing it on
>>> quite frequently.
>>>
>>> How do I begin to track this down or repair it?
>>> I'm not sure where to start.
>>>
>>> Versions are:
>>> Thunderbird: 1.0.2
>>> Firefox: 1.0.4
>>>
>>> Both were installed through Debian's apt-get
>>> install command.
>>>
>>
>
>

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