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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Albert Hopkins wrote:
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> On Saturday, July 23 at 09:35 (-0500), Dale said:
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>> Albert Hopkins wrote:
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>>> Anyway, here's something... did you actually report a bug?  If a tree
>>> falls in the forest...
>>>
>>>
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>> I haven't filed a bug because at the moment we have not been able to
>> figure out exactly what is causing it.
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> Well, if you knew what was causing it, then you wouldn't need to report
> a bug as you could just fix it yourself :P
>
> Look, you know it's a kernel panic.  You know kernels aren't supposed to
> panic.  You know fairly well how to repeat the bug, so I don't see
> anything getting int he way of you reporting it.  That's my take on it
> anyway.
>
> -a
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It is a good point.  I would like to be able to give some more details 
other than when I try to download a file in Firefox or Seamonkey, I get 
a kernel panic.  That's not really a lot of info to give them and I'm 
not sure what they could do with the little info.  Since it is using the 
network, is it a nic driver?  Is it a problem with the video drivers 
since it is sometimes opening/closing a new window when it does it too?  
Could it be something totally unrelated to those two?

I don't mind filing bug reports but I like to be able to say more than 
it is broke.  ;-)  I'm thinking about taking a nic out of my old machine 
and putting in here.  That would narrow that down at least.

You are right, this is not like Linux.  It is rare that I have any sort 
of trouble like this.  I guess hal and xorg was the worst so far.  At 
least right now my keyboard and mouse are working.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)