Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.0 and oldconfig

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Albert Hopkins wrote:
>
> On Saturday, July 23 at 05:33 (-0500), Dale said:
>
>    
>> But sometimes major changes can fix things and do things completely
>> different which can lead to other issues being fixed.  Seamonkey did
>> the
>> same when they did their major redo.
>>
>> Bad thing is, the kernel panics are at it again.  I had a little bit
>> of
>> time to download a video or two but here we go again.
>>
>> Back to the normal reboots I guess.  :-(
>>
>>      
> Yeah but typically.. or maybe my experience is completely different than
> most, but typically major releases center on new features and not fixing
> bugs, and major releases tend to create a whole lot more new bugs than
> fixes (which is why many people hold out for for<major_release>.1) :P
>
> Anyway, here's something... did you actually report a bug?  If a tree
> falls in the forest...
>
>    

I haven't filed a bug because at the moment we have not been able to 
figure out exactly what is causing it.  I know it is a kernel panic but 
not what part.  Seamonkey and Firefox works until I start to download 
something then there is a kernel panic.  While is causes a panic with 
Seamonkey or Firrefox, emerge can download for hours with not one 
problem.  Is it a network card driver or something else?  We don't 
know.  I just keep trying different things until I can find something 
that works then hopefully can figure out what changed.

I'm thinking about going back to the oldest kernel I can.  The oldest I 
have tried is 2.6.38 but .32 is still in the tree.

There is a whole thread, or two, on this tho.

Dale

:-)  :-)