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

[Dale]

Willie Wong wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> YoYo Siska wrote:
>>
>>> I guess it starts to download it to a temp file, than moves it to the
>>> file you choose (never looked into it)... so the problem would be most
>>> likely in that operation..
>>>
>
>> I just find it downright odd that a browser causes a panic because
>> of a download when other programs, like emerge, can download just
>> fine.
>>
> Dale, what YoYo meant was precisely that: emerge gets files using wget
> (unless you configured it otherwise) which writes directly to the
> directory, whereas Firefox would first download something to (I guess)
> /tmp and (according to YoYo) write it to the "correct" name/directory
> once you give it to the browser. So YoYo is suspecting that it is this
> move of the file from /tmp (or whereever) to your download directory
> that is giving the kernel panic.
>
> BTW, you mentioned that this happened after a power-outage. Have you
> completely checked your disks and filesystem's health?
>
> W
>


I understand what he was saying and I already knew it done it that way.  
I posted that in a reply somewhere.  It does the initial part to /tmp 
until you tell it otherwise, then it goes there.  I can't recall it not 
being that way.  It's just hard for me to believe that Firefox or 
Seamonkey downloading some file would cause a kernel panic like this.  
This just isn't like Linux.

I think the power outage was a coincidence at this point.  That said, I 
have tested all sorts of things including running memtest.  Hardware 
wise, everything seems fine.  I also blew out the dust bunnies which was 
not much.  I generally do this about every month or so.

Just hoping some update will change things, eventually.

Dale

:-)  :-)