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

[James Wall <wallservices@gmail.com>]

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.

> 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.  I ran the smart
> thingy and not one error there either.  Thinking file system is bad in the
> kernel, well my /home directory is on reiserfs too.  It is the one that
> works.
>
> Now, what the heck is this about?  Does this make sense to anyone?
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>



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