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 1QgBXM-00071J-Et for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:08:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A189621C13B for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 08:08:15 +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 EC83F21C03E for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:21:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yic15 with SMTP id 15so1945996yic.40 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:21:57 -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=IGK5tBWVCFDbt8t7/qyVF6J8Ip3krVqnZEju+MscWPY=; b=EQ2Kx3pYgoFOgc1/0sXnlQSaPpdoB3lPyYfoY2FzcuBtH5kYqKqBW0whoAQwZiEdK1 e7/FjSfeKHKLtXFDiS6/7U/qWa4+dmh3f+rqY8IveYwjYVQfNbdgsFV1Kwm2lI1WSOpw mkkC+mJAfLUK/YAo9lX+Z4XjDc8FLlgMm3bcw= Received: by 10.151.87.5 with SMTP id p5mr3755428ybl.80.1310368917302; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:21:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-74-240-57-83.jan.bellsouth.net [74.240.57.83]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u17sm3944071ybl.18.2011.07.11.00.21.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E1AA492.8060403@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:21:54 -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> <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> In-Reply-To: <4E1A9CEF.7020207@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fba373f58d85fc79c51b63bc1352a22c 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 :-) :-)