Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.

[William Kenworthy]

On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 02:21 -0500, Dale wrote:
> 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
>
> :-)  :-)
>

For me it wasnt the config file itself - but something the config did
that dragged in another library that caused the grief.  Once I fixed
that I copied ythe old config back from the last backup and it kept
working.

BillK