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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
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Joshua Murphy wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>>
>>>> It works as long as I don't open Firefox. If I open Firefox, poof!! No
>>>> more trapped smoke. lol
>>>>
>>>> Dale
>>>>
>>>>
>>> So I had suggested running it in gdb and someone else suggested
>>> running it in strace. Did you have a chance to try either of those?
>>>
>>> Not sure how much info you'll get from either but might be worth a try.
>>>
>>> - Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I don't know what gdb is. If my machine locks up, I won't be able to see
>> what strace does. I'm not sure that will help.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-) :-)
>>
>>
>>
> gdb is the GNU Debugger. As for the usability of strace in your case,
> if you can see the last few calls before the lock-up occurs, it could
> help narrow things down a bit. Also, if you SSH into the machine and
> run firefox through strace via that (drawing to the machine's local
> screen, not the SSH client's), you will have anything it can give in a
> workable form, even after the system hangs. You might also test
> whether it crashes while running Firefox via SSH and drawing to a
> different machine, which (if it does) would allow you to sit on a real
> terminal on the main system and see the kernel's output in the instant
> of the crash or (if it doesn't) would narrow it down to X being a key
> factor.
>
>
I'm like Peanut on the Jeff Dunham comedy skit. Take your hand and go
over your head and say whoooosh. I better wait on a fix because I may
break more than I learn. O_O
LOL
Dale
:-) :-)