YouTube freezing: VL 5.9 vs Puppy

[nubcnubdo]

Let's say I am viewing YouTube at 5 PM Eastern USA and Firefox is freezing constantly. In Puppy I hit Cntl+Alt+Backspace and the system crashes to command prompt, I type "xwin" and recover a clean desktop in 5 seconds, and I can start afresh. If I hit Cntrl+Alt+Backspace in VL 5.9, I crash to Login, and when I get back to desktop in 10 seconds, I open Firefox and it says that Firefox is already running and I gotta close it or restart. Well, I have to restart of course, which amounts to a minute or two of waiting (PITA). Is there a way that Cntl+Alt+Backspace could close Firefox, so I dont have to reboot VL 5.9 after a freeze at YouTube? Please note that if I use Kill function to close Firefox, I still have to reboot.

[uelsk8s]

have you tried opening a terminal and running "killall firefox-bin"?

[bigpaws]

In console type ps aux find the offending process and
the kill -HUP <process id> works.

Bigpaws

[nubcnubdo]

have you tried opening a terminal and running "killall firefox-bin"?

That will probably work. YouTube isn't busy right now, have to test later. Thanks

[saulgoode]

I open Firefox and it says that Firefox is already running and I gotta close it or restart.

Try searching your hidden FireFox directory for a "lock" file. For example:

find ~/.mozilla/ -name lock
/home/saul/.mozilla/SaulGoode/m3d26dz7.slt/lock

Delete that file and you should be able to start a new instance of FireFox.

[newt]

Boot to init 2 rather than init 4 and everytime you do ctrl/alt/backspace your X session will terminate and 'startx' to get back in.  This is closest to the puppy method you can get.

[nubcnubdo]

Boot to init 2 rather than init 4

Using "killall firefox-bin" seems to be working. Just out of curiosity, how does one boot to init 2?

[wcs]

Just out of curiosity, how does one boot to init 2?

In VASM > SUPER > SERVICE > BOOTSET you can choose 2 as the default runlevel for booting.
Alternatively, you can keep runlevel 4 as the default, but if you're using lilo as the bootloader, you should have an option for booting into textmode which boots into init 2. In /etc/lilo.conf, you should have a line in the textmode option that contains the line

Code:

append = "2 "

.

As for browser freezing, my solution was to write a two-line script that kills and then restarts the browser, like this.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
killall seamonkey-bin
seamonkey &