From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QgDcw-0003i9-5x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:22:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 858F721C289 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.107]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9618321C286 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:11:38 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtkHAA3MGk46B/Rk/2dsb2JhbABTmEWOdHfGdYY6BIcfLZAGHYs5 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,515,1304265600"; d="scan'208";a="758693784" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([58.7.244.100]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 11 Jul 2011 18:11:35 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA23DCAE4F for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:11:35 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id g8Ak6tpoaeFe for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:11:31 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.44.2] (rattus [192.168.44.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D0BCAE45 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:11:31 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics. From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4E1AA492.8060403@gmail.com> References: <4E11EEF3.70804@gmail.com> <4E168B0E.2070100@gmail.com> <201107080702.58452.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E16B251.6080204@gmail.com> <4E16B548.5050105@gmail.com> <4E17B3C3.4010009@gmail.com> <4E187F60.9080400@gmail.com> <4E18ABC3.1090909@orlitzky.com> <4E18C082.4070209@gmail.com> <4E18C977.9070001@orlitzky.com> <4E18D5A7.8040309@gmail.com> <4E1971AA.20209@coolmail.se> <4E1A00BA.5090306@gmail.com> <20110710230550.3e7c9060@digimed.co.uk> <4E1A4374.2090707@gmail.com> <4E1A8420.1050908@gmail.com> <1310362545.9996.12.camel@troll> <4E1A9CEF.7020207@gmail.com> <4E1AA492.8060403@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Organization: Home in Perth! Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:11:29 +0800 Message-ID: <1310379090.1524.1.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 110ac486ad7e6e737360a63ba3774ce6 On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 02:21 -0500, Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 00:03 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> Mark Knecht wrote: > >>>> DAle, > >> Hi Dale, not quite the same but something else to check - after my > >> 6monthly update round, I had two systems where FF refused to run - just > >> flashed up died. Erase .mozilla allowed one restart where I got a > >> window, any attempt to configure it killed FF. > >> > >> This is on gnome, not KDE so while symptoms differ, it may still be the > >> same root cause - some of the underlying packages needed rebuilding - it > >> was (maybe) nss and dev-lang/spidermonkey. Sorry, had a lot going on so > >> cant be more specific - it was strace that tipped me off (how I cant > >> remember). > >> > >> BillK > >> > > > > I'm going to try a clean directory for it here in a minute. I'm going > > to back up my whole home directory for good measure. > > > > I'm not holding my breath but I'll cross my fingers just in case. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > > > OK. This is better. It seems to work. Can someone explain how a bad > config file in Firefox can cause a kernel panic? I thought things like > this was not possible? This sounds so windowish. o_O > > Thanks for all the help. It seems we had not one but two problems. If > it wasn't for bad luck . . . . . . > > Dale > > :-) :-) > For me it wasnt the config file itself - but something the config did that dragged in another library that caused the grief. Once I fixed that I copied ythe old config back from the last backup and it kept working. BillK