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From: "András Csányi" <sayusi.ando@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics.
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:06:15
Message-Id: CALzub=pAqwNgW-fpt9LEbmzYU6nDqLpfAM04n+i-CvhHFPq1gw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and kernel panics. by Dale
1 On 9 July 2011 03:49, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > OK.  Back to the original thread.
3 >
4 > Here we go again.  Everything seems to work EXCEPT Firefox.  When I log into
5 > KDE, I can run Seamonkey, Kpat, Konqueror, Konsole, gkrellm and such but as
6 > soon as I start Firefox, it locks up tight.  Tight enough that the kernel
7 > panics and it resets since Neil informed me how to set that up.  Thanks
8 > Neil!
9 >
10 > On Firefox, I have unmerged both nspluginwrapper & adobe-flash.  Still does
11 > the same.  I also tried the unstable version of Firefox 3 and even the
12 > unstable Firefox 4.  I don't think it is Firefox itself but something that
13 > Firefox accesses or loads up.  Keep in mind, when I upgraded Firefox it also
14 > pulled in new xulrunner packages as well.  Is there anything else I should
15 > unmerge?  Keep in mind, I can't open Firefox.  Should I try to run Firefox
16 > as root to see if it locks up then too?
17 >
18 > So, what in the world is it that Firefox does that can cause a kernel panic?
19 >  Also, I can surf with both Seamonkey and Konqueror and everything works
20 > just fine.  It seems only Firefox, any version, is affected by this.
21 >
22 > Now what?  I use Firefox to go to youtube and stuff to get music videos.  It
23 > just does better than Seamonkey for me.
24 >
25 > Dale
26 >
27 > :-)  :-)
28
29 I had a similar problem but regarding Chromium. You can read about in
30 this list "Chromium and everything" subject. May I ask which kernel do
31 you use?
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