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This issue has been bugging me for a while now, on a fresh netinstall of Debian Etch, whenever I log into gmail with Iceweasel/Iceape/Swiftfox the system locks up, actually the exact symptoms are that the image freeze and the keyboard stop responding, strangely I can still move the cursor but with the image frozen, I can't say if I can click.
I noticed that when I press the power button Debian will power down properly but the screen remain frozen (I can hear the HD working).
I once waited 30min to see if it would unfreeze but no luck

I found people with similar issues in the ubuntu forums and tried the solutions suggested.
Switching to 24 bit in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (already in 24 bit), adding export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 to /etc/firefox/firefoxrc, installing flash deinstalling flash, extensions or not also makes no difference.

My system is an Athlon 64 X2 3800 on a Abit AV8 (K8T800 Pro/VT8237), 1Gb of good quality ram and an ATI X800 XT PE, running Etch and using the debian ati driver.

I am wondering to what extent it could be linked to the Ati video card, I had the same issue on a different motherboard and Ram but with the same CPU and GPU.

For now I am using Opera, it doesn't crash when logging in Gmail but I'd rather use Iceweasel or swiftfox.

I also tried several other distribution and had the same issue with debian based distribution (ubuntu, mepis) but firefox worked fine with gmail in Suse 10.2

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firefox / Iceweasel / Iceape

Submitted by Fab on Fri, 2007-02-09 14:37.

I was trying to install firefox manually to see if it made any difference.

I followed this howto http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_Firefox#Linux for the installation, but now when I type firefox in the shell I get: "error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

I looked for libstdc++.so.5 with synaptic but couldn't find it.

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libstdc++.so.5

Submitted by oldfolio on Fri, 2007-02-09 23:36.

Fab,

The file libstdc++.so.5 is part of the package libstdc++5

--oldfolio

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oldfolio is right

Submitted by rtmex on Wed, 2007-05-23 22:13.

I got the same error, just install the libstdc++5 package

apt-get install libstdc++5

And it will work

rtmex
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firefox / Iceweasel / Iceape

Submitted by Fab on Fri, 2007-02-09 22:04.

Any ideas on how to identify the issue?

I reproduced the problem, hard rebooted and checked all the logs in /var/log but the last entries recorded were 2 minutes before the system lock up.

Could it have something to do with the debian Ati driver? is it even remotely possible?

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possible

Submitted by pinniped on Sat, 2007-02-10 02:15.

It could be a problem with the driver - in fact a graphics driver in kernel mode (or any driver in kernel mode) is a favorite crash point. Unfortunately debugging is never straightforward - you would need another computer to act as a 'remote' debugger and an 'unstripped' version of iceweasel that can reproduce the problem. One thing you can try is to only use the framebuffer or else the vga driver to see if the problem persists (but you have awful graphics this way). You can also try your luck with the proprietary driver. Once you convince yourself it is the driver then you need to visit the appropriate project site, check rules on how to report bugs, look in the archive if your bug was reported, etc.

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possible

Submitted by Fab on Sat, 2007-02-10 13:30.

How do I use the framebuffer or VGA driver?

I want to try to install the proprietary driver from ATI.
Does anyone have a link to a good howto?

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Re: possible

Submitted by dpool on Sat, 2008-04-19 04:28.

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