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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm baaaaaacccckkkkkk. Anybody want to guess why? Come on, guess. First |
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> one doesn't count. |
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> OK. This thing ran for a while with no problems. I'm downloading a video |
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> while I am watching TV. I use Firefox for that because it has that download |
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> helper tool and I like it. I couldn't find it for Seamonkey. Anyway, I'm |
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> watching TV when I here my puter beep like it does when it is booting up the |
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> BIOS. I look over and sure enough, it was rebooting. This is what I am |
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> using at the moment: |
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> root@fireball / # equery list *xorg* firefox nvidia* |
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> * Searching for *xorg* ... |
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> [IP-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.10:0 |
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> [IP-] [ ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.10.3:0 |
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> |
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> * Searching for firefox ... |
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> [IP-] [ ] www-client/firefox-3.6.17:0 |
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> * Searching for nvidia* ... |
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> [IP-] [ ] media-video/nvidia-settings-260.19.29:0 |
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> [IP-] [ ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-275.09.07:0 |
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> root@fireball / # |
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> There was a bump in xorg-server so I let it upgrade. I also noticed the |
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> nvidia and updated it as well. I don't recall seeing that the last time I |
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> looked. Anyway, Could this be xorg, Nvidia, Firefox or something else or a |
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> combination of a couple of them? I'm on the latest of everything that is in |
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> the tree. I'm thinking about going back to the older xorg, just to test. |
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> While I am at it, it ran fine before I let it upgrade xorg. Maybe I didn't |
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> let it run long enough or something but it never crashed on me. |
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> Any more thoughts on this mess? |
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> Dale |
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A complete reboot like that might be software jumping to the wrong |
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address but, if so, it seems to me that it's more likely caused by how |
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you've built the machine and not the software itself having a bug. KDE |
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& Firefox are very widely used. Why should you hit this bug and not |
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everyone else? None the less publish everything required for people to |
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hep, emerge --info, contents of all /etc/portage/package.* files, |
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/var/lib/portage/world, rc-update show results, etc. Maybe someone |
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will see it when you haven't. I don't think it's the nvidia-settings |
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stuff if you haven't run nvidia settings. |
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On the other hand, it's new hardware which is where I'd put my bet. A |
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flaky power supply. A funky motherboard. Bad CPU cooling causing |
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overheating. Memory problems that are as of yet uncovered by |
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memtest86. |
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Bummer... |
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- Mark |
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