According to my understanding and based on what Jonas wrote above and also [1], doing the freeze post-BIOS would be useless securitywise; it’s not even a workaround, as any malicious software then just inserts itself into the MBR. This really needs to be fixed at the BIOS level to be effective at all.
[1] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2005-May/011688.html
I couldn’t, and neither could I with a 10.10 live, so it’s possibly something that’s changed going from 10.04 to 10.10. I also tried Chromium and Firefox 6 under 10.04; with Firefox 6 the issue persists, whereas with Chromium I can’t reproduce it. There’s of course a more serious bug underlying the browser, as no application issue should bring the entire system to its knees.
(I just realized I used amd64 live discs in the tests whereas the installed 10.04 is an x86 system. Perhaps it makes no difference but I’ll leave judging that to experts.)
I’ll gladly execute more tests if anyone has ideas how to narrow this down even more.
Chrome Version : 13.0.782.218
OS Version: Ubuntu 10.04
URLs (if applicable) :http://mummila.net/varasto/websivut/chromium-middle-click-bug-2011-09-21.html
Other browsers tested:Chromium 15.0.871.0
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Safari 5:
Firefox 4.x:OK
IE 7/8/9:
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Middle-click anchor link pointing to an anchor on current page.
2.Repeat step 1.
What is the expected result?
Have two new tabs open with the current page loaded in them and scrolled to selected anchor.
What happens instead?
Only one new tab with the current page opens. Subsequent middle-clicks also fail to bring up new tabs entirely.
Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.
The behavior of middle-clicking the anchor can be ’reset’ to work again by middle-clicking another link; after that you can again get one new tab from the first link, but again subsequent middle-clicks fail to bring up any more.
The issue is demonstrated on the page pointed to by the attached URL.
UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/13.0.782.218 Chrome/13.0.782.218 Safari/535.1
Thanks for your input Timothy, I’ll have to see if I can reproduce this using a 11.04 live disc.
Timothy, does your harware setup match? You’re using the internal Nvidia graphics and not an add-on card?
I just tested kernel 3.0.0, and although the issue went away, this didn’t reveal as much as it could have, because I had to run GDM in safe mode.
I have a desktop with two users, both of whom have Me TV set up. At some during configuration, one of the users has had her channels split among the channel pages so that each page is occupied by just one channel. This makes switching channels via the GUI a bit harder than it has to be, as you always first have to find the correct page for the desired channel.
I haven’t found a way to change the page each channel is showed on so that I could rearrange them into pages having more than one channel each.
The other user’s setup has multiple channels on each page as desired, so I figured copying me-tv.db from this user to the other would do the trick. But it turns out doing just that doesn’t copy the pages setup. So where is it stored? Alternatively, how can I rearrange the channels in pages?
I just reported Bug #840266 and thought I’d mention it here as it bears some resemblance to this one.
This is an up-to-date Lucid on an Asus M2N68-AM Plus.
With the stock Firefox (3.6.21), when http://www.new7wonders.com/image-gallery?id=21&post_id=5077 is opened, cpu load increases significantly, mouse pointer movement becomes jerky and finally the system freezes. Sometimes (maybe 1/3 of freezes) the display also goes black. At this point Alt+PrtScr+REISUB works but nothing else. On the M2N68-AM Plus this seems to happen every time, whereas on my other system (an ancient Shuttle, a SS56G I think) it never happens (though the page still does burn cpu quite heavily).
I tried older release kernels down to 2.6.32-27, and the issue remained. I have yet to try newer ones.
I also tried disabling Flash, and the issue remained.
I’m attaching an apport, and a syslog that says the Oops is because ”unable to handle kernel paging request”. This leads me to suspect this might be the same issue as Bug #834629, but as the circumstances do differ significantly, I decided to report this separately.