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

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> And this is exactly why you should consider posting any information
> your can find on LKML to let the heavy weight guys figure it out. As I
> said earlier, I believe they will take you quite seriously. In general
> I would also say that Firefox should be able to cause a kernel panic,
> and since it is I know the kernel developers are going to be
> interested in what's the root cause.
>
> I don't remember from earlier why you said it was a kernel panic, but
> clearly it must be. How are you determining this? Do you have info in
> a terminal? For a few problems I've had I've posted digital photos
> I've taken and uploaded to FlickR. You might consider doing something
> similar.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>
>

The reason I said kernel panic is because someone else posted that when 
the keyboard lights blink, that is a kernel panic.  Sure enough, when 
Neil told me how to set it up so that it would automatically reboot when 
the kernel panics, it does just that.  I have no reason to think it is 
anything other than a kernel panic based on nothing but the kernel doing 
the reboot and the lights blinking.

I would like to report this but I wouldn't even know where to start.  If 
I had a lot more knowledge on how to help track it down, then that would 
be different.  I'm not sure I can help much other than telling them 
Firefox causes a kernel panic but I have no clue how or why.

Then again, if one of the dev would hold my hand a little, I could copy 
a install over to my spare drive and then not have to worry about 
messing up my main install.  Fluxbox is OK but I like my KDE better.  ;-)

My old rig was in the middle of a update and we just had a nasty little 
thunderstorm here.  It was OOo of course.  It was 7 hours into a 9 hour 
compile when the lights blinked.  My old rig isn't on a UPS anymore.  
Neat huh?  I'm glad for the rain tho.  My garden needs it really really 
bad.

Dale

:-)  :-)