Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
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
Yeah, if you can't report good clear info then it's just a waste of
everyone's time. No need to do that.
Not sure if it would work or even apply but there are some kernel
features, mostly I think used around boot time, that send kernel info
over either a serial port or more recently an Ethernet link to another
computer which then stays alove and captures whatever data gets
transmitted. If you were interested in learning about that (I am but
haven't had time. I used it years ago to give some LKML guys info they
needed to get an ATI chipset to work better) then we might be able to
dig into that off line.
On the other hand, if you're machine is working then it ain't broke, right? ;-)
Cheers,
Mark
It works as long as I don't open Firefox. If I open Firefox, poof!! No
more trapped smoke. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
