Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

[Dale]

Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> On Thursday 21 July 2011 05:54:32 Dale wrote:
>
>> I been working on gathering information for this for a while.  I just
>> tried something else.  I use the download helper plugin in Firefox to
>> download videos.  Also, it crashes when I am downloading videos but that
>> is about all I use Firefox for.  I had a light bulb moment and decided
>> to see if the same plugin was available for Seamonkey.  It was available
>> so I installed it.  It works the same as in Firefox.  So, I closed as
>> much stuff as I could and started downloading a couple good size
>> videos.  After a few minutes, you guessed it, kernel panic followed by a
>> reboot.  To make sure it was not a fluke or something, I repeated the
>> process and got the same result.
>>
> Dale,
>
> I would suspect the download-helper-plugin as that is common in both the
> Firefox and Seamonkey crashes.
> Can you provide a link to the plugin you use to allow others to test this to
> see if it works for them?
>
>

I'm not sure you are right but it is possible.  Here is a linky:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/seamonkey/addon/video-downloadhelper/

It's pretty straight forward.  I can get a failure by going to youtube 
and starting the download of two or three fairly long movies.  I usually 
middle click and open the video in a new tab.  Then start the download 
and close the tab.  I usually walk off or watch TV while it downloads.  
I have the slow DSL here so it takes a bit to download but it usually 
crashes in a minute or two.  Firefox crashes faster but Seamonkey only 
takes a couple minutes or something.

If anyone tests this, let me know if it messes up.  I'm on amd64 
multilib too.  That may have some effect.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)