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

[Dale]

YoYo Siska wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:22:32PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> ...
>
>>>> using either.  I clicked on the link to download and the window
>>>> popped up to ask me whether to open it or save it.  I selected to
>>>> save it as I have done countless times before.  As soon as I clicked
>>>> that, the window popped up asking where to save it to then kernel
>>>> panic.  This was in Seamonkey.
>>>>
> ...
>
>> So, when Seamonkey or Firefox try to download something, besides the
>> web pages itself, I get a kernel panic.  Is this weird or what?
>>
> BTW, as any other browser (well, new enough..), firefox starts
> downloading as soon as you click on a link (ie, it dowloads it while you
> are choosing where to save it, so that by the time you choose the
> dir/filename, smaller files are allready downloaded ;).
> You can easilly see this if you have some kind of network traffic monitoring
> widget/applet/app...
> 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..
>
> yoyo
>
>
>
>

I have noticed that too.  You are correct that that is how it is done.  
I have had some smaller files that by the time I pick where to put it, 
it is already downloaded.

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.

I just had a thought.  I'm going to use Konqueror to download a tarball 
and see if that fails.  If that works, I don't know what to think really 
but if it fails, maybe something is off on my /tmp directory or 
something.  Does this look normal:

root@fireball / # ls -al /
total 36
drwxr-xr-x  25 root root   616 Jul 19 11:22 .
drwxr-xr-x  25 root root   616 Jul 19 11:22 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  2632 Jul  8 07:12 bin
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  1024 Jul 23 01:20 boot
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    80 Jul 16 03:02 .config
drwxr-xr-x  52 dale users 2752 Jun 23 01:16 data
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root  4480 Jul 23 05:19 dev
drwxr-xr-x  78 root root  4704 Jul 23 05:28 etc
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root   208 Jun 17 03:01 home
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     5 Jul 13 21:14 lib -> lib64
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  3704 Jul 13 21:14 lib32
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root  4464 Jul 13 21:14 lib64
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    88 Jul 10 18:17 media
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root   192 Jan  5  2011 mnt
drwxr-xr-x  80 root root  4688 Jun 17 04:35 old-etc
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root   200 Jul  8 21:15 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 162 root root     0 Jul 23 05:18 proc
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root    80 Jun 18 17:23 Resources
drwx------  28 root root  3568 Jul 23 05:34 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4880 Jul 13 21:14 sbin
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root     0 Jul 23 05:18 sys
drwxrwxrwt   7 root root   304 Jul 23 09:35 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root   472 Feb  8 17:25 usr
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root  4096 Jul  8 03:11 var
root@fireball / #

How about this for the content of /tmp:

root@fireball / # ls -al /tmp/
total 25
drwxrwxrwt  9 root root   424 Jul 23 09:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root   616 Jul 19 11:22 ..
drwx------  2 dale dale2  120 Jul 23 05:28 akonadi-dale.GkYTTP
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root    72 Jul 23 05:28 .ICE-unix
drwx------  3 dale dale2  320 Jul 23 05:28 kde-dale
drwx------  3 root root   112 Jul 23 09:38 kde-root
drwx------  2 dale dale2  264 Jul 23 09:38 ksocket-dale
drwx------  2 root root   128 Jul 23 09:39 ksocket-root
-rw-------  1 dale dale2 5284 Jul 23 09:40 nscopy.tmp
-rw-------  1 dale dale2 5022 Jul 23 09:40 nsemail.eml
srwxr-xr-x  1 dale dale2    0 Jul 23 05:29 virt_1111
-rw-------  1 dale dale2  947 Jul 23 05:28 virtuoso_ZT3609.ini
-r--r--r--  1 root root    11 Jul 23 05:19 .X0-lock
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root    72 Jul 23 05:19 .X11-unix
root@fireball / #


Shouldn't kde-dale be owned by me but have user(s) as the group?  The 
user dale2 is my clean login that I use to test things with.  I'm going 
to logout and then clean that directory and see what it creates when I 
log back in again.

Thoughts on this?

Dale

:-)  :-)