[PLUG] X is messed up (RESOLVED)

[Paul Heinlein]

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> This morning I did have an unnerving experience, indicating that 
> things may still not be perfect. I opened a bookmark in a new tab in 
> Firefox and was suddenly staring at a black screen with a bunch of 
> incomprehensible messages on it - memory addresses, mostly. [...]

IIRC, some versions of Firefox are wickedly incompatible with some 
shipping Xorg drivers. I know FF 3.5.1 has the issue, but other 3.5.x 
releases may share the problem.

On the CentOS list, Olaf Mueller suggests some alterations to 
xorg.conf:

   http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079054.html

The whole thread may be of interest to you:

   http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079046.html

> The only clue I could see was a reference to "kinit."

kinit is a Kerberos utility. I doubt it's an issue for you.

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