From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:03:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107301303.19667.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E33DA50.6090001@gmail.com>
On Saturday 30 July 2011 11:17:52 Dale wrote:
> What could have caused this? Could it be a file system problem? I
> don't think it is a physical failure since it is working now after
> giving it a fresh start. I just don't get how this could have caused a
> kernel panic. This is plain weird.
One possibility is that, having now written to almost every location on the
disk, its controller has marked some faulty blocks that used to contain code
in the disk subsystem. If it was reading damaged data, there's no surprise
in anything that happened next!
> Would love to hear some thoughts on what caused this problem given the
> fix.
That's mine :-)
(And it's not far off what I suggested to you before: that the lightning
strike had damaged your hardware.)
--
Rgds
Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-30 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-25 18:20 [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels Todd Goodman
2011-07-25 19:11 ` Dale
2011-07-25 18:53 ` Todd Goodman
2011-07-25 20:00 ` Dale
2011-07-25 23:27 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-07-26 11:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Todd Goodman
2011-07-26 14:14 ` Dale
2011-07-26 14:06 ` Todd Goodman
2011-07-27 21:03 ` Dale
2011-07-27 22:10 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-27 22:18 ` James Wall
2011-07-28 7:00 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-07-28 20:29 ` Dale
2011-07-28 23:37 ` Dale
2011-07-28 23:50 ` Willie Wong
2011-07-29 0:59 ` Dale
2011-07-28 23:51 ` Michael Mol
2011-07-29 0:57 ` Dale
2011-07-29 1:04 ` Adam Carter
2011-07-29 1:05 ` Adam Carter
2011-07-29 1:44 ` Dale
2011-07-29 14:47 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-07-29 19:41 ` Dale
2011-07-29 22:54 ` Michael Mol
2011-07-29 23:06 ` Dale
2011-07-29 23:59 ` Alex Schuster
2011-07-30 0:32 ` Dale
2011-07-30 10:04 ` Mick
2011-07-30 10:17 ` Dale
2011-07-30 12:03 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2011-07-30 12:53 ` Michael Mol
2011-07-30 14:04 ` Dale
2011-07-30 14:22 ` Michael Mol
2011-07-30 14:47 ` Dale
2011-07-30 14:00 ` Dale
2011-07-30 10:27 ` pk
2011-07-30 14:10 ` Dale
2011-07-30 14:35 ` OT: " Peter Humphrey
2011-07-30 14:50 ` Dale
2011-07-31 0:53 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-31 8:33 ` Mick
2011-07-31 8:49 ` Dale
2011-07-31 11:13 ` Mick
2011-07-31 13:15 ` Joshua Murphy
2011-07-31 13:51 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-31 14:17 ` Joshua Murphy
2011-07-31 14:59 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-31 8:35 ` Dale
2011-07-31 13:09 ` Joshua Murphy
2011-07-31 17:20 ` Mick
2011-07-31 17:42 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-31 17:56 ` Dale
2011-08-03 9:12 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-03 15:29 ` Dale
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