Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 July 2011 17:18:19 James Wall wrote:
>    
>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> Here is a update.  Let's see what folks think about this situation.  I
>>> mentioned in another thread that I did a from scratch kernel.  It was a
>>> .35 version.  It seemed to work fine, for a while.  When I tell
>>> Seamonkey to download to my desktop, it works fine.  The minute I tell
>>> it to save it to my large 750Gb drive, I get a kernel panic.  Keep in
>>> mind, there is nothing OS related on that drive.  Nothing OS at all.
>>>   It is videos, CD ISO's and such as that.
>>>
>>> Here is another thing I just found out.  I did download a few videos I
>>> wanted to save.  They were on my desktop and who likes desktop clutter.
>>>   So, I dragged them over to the large data drive.  I did this by
>>> dragging from the desktop to a open Konqueror window.  This was not
>>> downloading or anything, just a straight move operation.  It copied a
>>> few Mbs and panic. This had nothing to do with Seamonkey either.
>>>        
>> This looks like a drive/cable issue, since it only occurs on the one
>> drive. If both drives are SATA, I would try swapping the cables to
>> rule out a bad cable. If the problem stays with the drive I would
>> first try a different SATA port to see if that clears up the issue.
>>      
> I would also check that all the cables are plugged in properly and that there
> is nothing conductive (like metal) touching the drive where it really
> shouldn't.
> Maybe open the case, take the drive out and put it on a big sturdy cardboard
> box to avoid possible shorts.
>    

I did check all the connections.  I unplugged all the things drive 
related, power and data, and everything looked fine.  No dust, no 
corrosion or anything that I could see.  I did use a flashlight and a 
magnifying glass to check.  It could still be something I didn't see but 
I looked.

>>      
>>> So, did this issue just move from a Seamonkey sort of problem to
>>> completely something else?  Hmmmmm.  After the crash, I boot to single
>>> user mode.  I ran resierfsck --fix-fixable on the drive.  Not one
>>> error.
>>>        
> Did you do that on a mounted drive? I would first try a filesystem check before
> using that command.
>
>    

I went to single user to run that.  It didn't report fixing anything or 
any other problems.

>>> I ran the smart thingy and not one error there either.
>>>        
> Did you force the short and long tests to be run and waited for them to be
> finished? On a large drive, the long test can easily take several hours
> (without any indication of how far it actually is)
>
>    

I did the long one.  It ran while I took a nap.  It does take a good 
while to run.  You nailed that one for sure.  I just wonder how long a 
3Tb drive would take.  o_O   I'm going to run it again tho.  See if it 
picks up on anything now.


>>>   Thinking file system is bad in the kernel, well my /home directory is
>>> on reiserfs too.  It is the one that works.
>>>        
> If it were the reiserfs implementation, the issue would be more common.
>
>    

That's what I think too.  It's also not the only partition that I use 
reiserfs on either.  I would think they would all have some sort of 
weirdness if it was that.  Then again, things tend to pick on me a LOT.  :/


>>> Now, what the heck is this about?  Does this make sense to anyone?
>>>        
> It does, there is something wrong with that drive.
>
> Another thing you could try is to plug that drive into a different machine (I
> believe you still have your old one?) and see if the same issue occurs there.
> Also, now would be a good time to have backups of the data on that drive :)
>
>    

I may test that drive in my old rig.  I have a SATA card in there.  
Actually, it was originally in that rig.  I did make backups of the 
stuff I have room for.  I just can't back up my video/audio files tho.

I'll post if anything changes or I get around to testing the drive in 
the old rig.  My garden and stuff sort of has me running.  I picked 
three 5 gallon buckets of okra yesterday.  O_O

Dale

:-)  :-)