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 1QfhXL-00064Y-CL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:06:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85A1321C1A4 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06BF21C107 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj20 with SMTP id 20so1594089gwj.40 for ; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:55:04 -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=nC4DoH9ll48cO4Xok2kI3LGXtB9wC2XqQloL6qY0wRI=; b=pXeJv+U/ojlIebv5Cm7UYnyAEFigL2XCnHmemUx9W83srIDplAtBz1ngHS9jqLnESQ An+JI9ZckcKOYdm2NkVU7R1h1uAbGWSE2TSdZR9KqFRLdKtLOpur1/jTbd8xgROkaQYR 8A1wWZZvQauY4moyZ4sUyKvrWY4gIl2oAqaDk= Received: by 10.151.73.1 with SMTP id a1mr2957680ybl.407.1310255704109; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:55:04 -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 f4sm3592563ybd.8.2011.07.09.16.55.02 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:55:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E18EA55.8030904@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:55:01 -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> <4E18D5A7.8040309@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 61b2f575f2a7762d1ee2de5cada89ab9 Mark Knecht wrote: > > And this is exactly why you should consider posting any information > your can find on LKML to let the heavy weight guys figure it out. As I > said earlier, I believe they will take you quite seriously. In general > I would also say that Firefox should be able to cause a kernel panic, > and since it is I know the kernel developers are going to be > interested in what's the root cause. > > I don't remember from earlier why you said it was a kernel panic, but > clearly it must be. How are you determining this? Do you have info in > a terminal? For a few problems I've had I've posted digital photos > I've taken and uploaded to FlickR. You might consider doing something > similar. > > Cheers, > Mark > > > The reason I said kernel panic is because someone else posted that when the keyboard lights blink, that is a kernel panic. Sure enough, when Neil told me how to set it up so that it would automatically reboot when the kernel panics, it does just that. I have no reason to think it is anything other than a kernel panic based on nothing but the kernel doing the reboot and the lights blinking. I would like to report this but I wouldn't even know where to start. If I had a lot more knowledge on how to help track it down, then that would be different. I'm not sure I can help much other than telling them Firefox causes a kernel panic but I have no clue how or why. Then again, if one of the dev would hold my hand a little, I could copy a install over to my spare drive and then not have to worry about messing up my main install. Fluxbox is OK but I like my KDE better. ;-) My old rig was in the middle of a update and we just had a nasty little thunderstorm here. It was OOo of course. It was 7 hours into a 9 hour compile when the lights blinked. My old rig isn't on a UPS anymore. Neat huh? I'm glad for the rain tho. My garden needs it really really bad. Dale :-) :-)