dvdram
October 23rd, 2010, 03:24 PM
Hi,
I've just upgraded my laptop, and one of the desktop workstations, to Kubuntu 10.10 (using the package manager in both cases). The laptop is fine, almost everything works as it should, but on the desktop, both Thunderbird and Firefox have become unusable.
Launching Firefox, nothing appears to be happening, but after about 5 minutes I get 'Warning: Unresponsive Script.' The script in question is /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.11/components/nsContentPrefService.js:829
Thunderbird does a similar thing, although it takes a lot longer, and it refers to a different script - unfortunately I don't have 10 minutes to find out which one, but I believe it had 'security' in the name.
I tried removing and reinstalling both programs, but no luck there. What I have noticed is that, having enabled the root account, I can use Firefox (haven't tried Thunderbird, but I assume the same would apply) without a problem in that. With that in mind, two things I think might be relevant: /home is an NFS share, and normal users are authenticated via LDAP. I can't imagine how that might affect things - it never used to before 10.10 - but the only other difference I can think of between root and a normal user is that it's a permissions issue, in which case I'd think a lot more people, and the laptop, would have been affected. Oh, I also tried renaming ~/.mozilla and ~/.thunderbird, but that didn't help either.
Any help, pointers, suggestions, would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Alex
I've just upgraded my laptop, and one of the desktop workstations, to Kubuntu 10.10 (using the package manager in both cases). The laptop is fine, almost everything works as it should, but on the desktop, both Thunderbird and Firefox have become unusable.
Launching Firefox, nothing appears to be happening, but after about 5 minutes I get 'Warning: Unresponsive Script.' The script in question is /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.11/components/nsContentPrefService.js:829
Thunderbird does a similar thing, although it takes a lot longer, and it refers to a different script - unfortunately I don't have 10 minutes to find out which one, but I believe it had 'security' in the name.
I tried removing and reinstalling both programs, but no luck there. What I have noticed is that, having enabled the root account, I can use Firefox (haven't tried Thunderbird, but I assume the same would apply) without a problem in that. With that in mind, two things I think might be relevant: /home is an NFS share, and normal users are authenticated via LDAP. I can't imagine how that might affect things - it never used to before 10.10 - but the only other difference I can think of between root and a normal user is that it's a permissions issue, in which case I'd think a lot more people, and the laptop, would have been affected. Oh, I also tried renaming ~/.mozilla and ~/.thunderbird, but that didn't help either.
Any help, pointers, suggestions, would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Alex