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 1QfgbM-0000Oa-PI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:06:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6470721C1A4 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:06:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yi0-f53.google.com (mail-yi0-f53.google.com [209.85.218.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E3321C140 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:26:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yic15 with SMTP id 15so1588984yic.40 for ; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:26:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=p0Dq/lm1UA+cFmHpA71fl66Ge5kl8RcFJuIOH+r8K8k=; b=Cmme4tUh+E6xTXhwQDEJiidgvyjjRaTOoAPonYqWXzsCRcpwfGK4Ny9Jd8C5aEe6Vc WcO5bi3g+bT0J/Bdhm2ZWHTMtTdqlR99//nOw/AbhxF8/0qYO4Ad+Aym7TgFtJrofjeZ xP/NiSi7TX0iOEafZI84k1nmq0wro3is32D/o= Received: by 10.146.157.7 with SMTP id f7mr965071yae.24.1310250410103; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-92-3.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.92.3]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w13sm10804806ano.49.2011.07.09.15.26.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:26:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E18D5A7.8040309@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:26:47 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110708 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics. 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> In-Reply-To: <4E18C977.9070001@orlitzky.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6f9a3aa25bf7f390b716297e79bdb407 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 07/09/11 16:56, Dale wrote: > >> No worries. Sometimes when you back up a bit, you may realize you >> missed something. I did run memtest and it bad about 45 passes I think >> with no errors. That takes a while when you have 16Gbs. o_O >> > Ah, ok. I'd also try a hard drive scan to make sure firefox's stuff > isn't sitting on bad sectors. > > Applications shouldn't be able to cause a kernel panic, period. So if it > isn't hardware, it's a kernel bug by definition. > > I'm going to try having a fresh .mozilla directory as soon as I can. I'm sort of enjoying having KDE right now. ;-) I don't think it is the hard drive. I did a fresh install on a spare drive with the same results. so, I'm beginning to think it is a kernel bug but the thing is, I have tried several versions of that too. Basically, this is plain confusing. I can't see how Firefox, or something it has to access, can cause a kernel panic. Thing is, I can't think of anything else that could be the problem but trying different versions of a kernel makes me think it is not the kernel either. < sighs > Dale :-) :-)