Comments on: Bug in Ubuntu 10.04 Crashing Your Desktop via Firefox, NoScript

By: Mark Melvin

Mark Melvin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:59:26 +0000

I’ve been plagued by this problem, installed the patch - and it seemed to work for awhile, but the issue is back. *Very* frustrating. Is there perhaps another bug? I am using the Nvidia drivers on an Alienware M15x laptop. Ubuntu is pretty much unusable right now and I cannot seem to find any other solutions.

By: Amanda K

Amanda K — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:16:30 +0000

Back, found a solution:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bryceharrington/purple && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

All three commands need sudo to get full permissions to do what they need.

Captcha(heh): resign among

By: Amanda K

Amanda K — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:12:49 +0000

I tried the fix mentioned and:
gpg: requesting key [redacted] from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the list directory

By: john paterson

john paterson — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:08:02 +0000

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on a Toshiba laptop. I tried the command line above and was told I didn’t have permission. I then tried to go into root but the system would not accept my password.

Finally I entered the line as three separate commands. One command at a time. Each prefaced with sudo. That worked and I now have NoScript behaving the way it should in Firefox.

Thank you all for your help.

By: Demetre

Demetre — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:52:02 +0000

Thank you for the fix. I run Ubuntu Lucid on Dell 600m and Aspire and only the Dell had the problem.
In all fairness to Ubuntu guys they warned about the firmware in the Dell Inspiron 600m but they could have been a bit more informative. This adventure cost me three hours of phone calls to VISA and an airline company. While booking a ticket, the charge went through and the session stopped (crashed) when I attempted to disable the Noscript and I did not get the booking confirmation. Fun or what!

By: Giorgio

Giorgio — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:51:12 +0000

@Jackie Petraglia:
A X reboot is needed for the patch to be effective.

By: Jackie Petraglia

Jackie Petraglia — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:12:04 +0000

I Went through the entire process, entered the command as a root user. After completion I exited the browser and terminal. After restarting firefox and attempting to use Noscript again, the computer/OS proceeded to reboot itself just as it had done before the patch was added. What now?

By: effe

effe — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:47:25 +0000

thx giorgio, your solution via ppa-repository works perfectly, as your can’t-live-without-it add-on noscript… =:-)

i myself did a fresh from-the-scratch xubuntu install on my compaq evo N610c. whenever i hit the noscript-button, my session exploded as already mentionend by others. with your suggested solution, including a restart of x-server, everything works the way it should.

thank you very again, as well as for NoScript — the interwebz is save again. =,-)

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:31:13 +0000

This has affected my work laptop (which I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.4) but not my own machine, where I did a clean install on a new disc and then re-loaded packages (dpkg –get-selections > a.txt then dpkg –set-selections

By: Rene

Rene — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:55:52 +0000

Hi,
I had this problem, also on a Dell D600 laptop, with Firefox, when I typed something in the search box at the top right of the window, the x-server would crash and the system was back at the login screen. Tried Giorgio’s fix and it seems OK so far. Thanks very much!!!