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

2011-07-10 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Yea, that does sound familiar. Trying to recall who could have had that problem. H. Oh, it was me !! lol This is my card info: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT200 [GeForce GT 220] (rev a2) Drivers: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-270.41.19 That is

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

2011-07-10 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 00:03 -0500, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > DAle, Hi Dale, not quite the same but something else to check - after my 6monthly update round, I had two systems where FF refused to run - just flashed up died. Erase .mozilla allowed one restart where I got a window, any at

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

2011-07-10 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 07/10/2011 12:40 PM, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:55:01 -0500, Dale wrote: 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

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

2011-07-10 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: DAle, PLEASE look at bullet item #3 in this NVidia release: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver.html Fixed a bug that caused freezes and crashes when resizing windows in KDE 4 with desktop effects enabled using X.Org X server version 1.10 o

[gentoo-user] RE: Thunderbugs

2011-07-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
-original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs From: Mike Edenfield Date: 2011-07-11 06:26 >On 7/10/2011 5:20 AM, john wrote: > >> Had a pesky invasion of little insects behind my screen. Of which a lot >> have seemed to stop moving. Think I'll a get sealed tft next time. >> I'll t

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

2011-07-10 Thread Mark Knecht
DAle, PLEASE look at bullet item #3 in this NVidia release: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver.html Fixed a bug that caused freezes and crashes when resizing windows in KDE 4 with desktop effects enabled using X.Org X server version 1.10 or later. Sure sounds

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

2011-07-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:42:50 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Yea, done tried that.  I tried different kernels, different nvidia >>> drivers and all with no change. >>> >> >> WAG - have you tried the nv drivers? >> >> >> > >

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

2011-07-10 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 10 July 2011 20:42:50 Dale wrote: Yea, done tried that. I tried different kernels, different nvidia drivers and all with no change. Yes, but what about xorg-server? I think that's what Peter was suggesting. I did back up a version of xorg. Fir

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

2011-07-10 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:42:50 -0500, Dale wrote: Yea, done tried that. I tried different kernels, different nvidia drivers and all with no change. WAG - have you tried the nv drivers? I did but I couldn't get X to even start. I guess something is not set

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-10 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 7/10/2011 5:20 AM, john wrote: Had a pesky invasion of little insects behind my screen. Of which a lot have seemed to stop moving. Think I'll a get sealed tft next time. I'll try sucking them out with a hoover. Damn things, tft was 350 pounds, you think it should have anti critters device.

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

2011-07-10 Thread walt
On 07/10/2011 12:40 PM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:55:01 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> 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 b

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 10 July 2011 19:38:34 Neil Bothwick wrote: > it my get rid of the problem temporarily but you still have no idea of > what the problem was or what to do should it reoccur. s/reoccur/recur/ Speaking as one old pedant to another... -- Rgds Peter

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

2011-07-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 10 July 2011 20:42:50 Dale wrote: > Yea, done tried that. I tried different kernels, different nvidia > drivers and all with no change. Yes, but what about xorg-server? I think that's what Peter was suggesting. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 10 July 2011 22:15:31 Grant wrote: > Speaking of videos, I sincerely apologize for this but it's Sunday and I > can not help myself: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cqOEr_yfak I don't know what that's about - I couldn't watch more than 10s of it. -- Rgds Peter

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

2011-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:42:50 -0500, Dale wrote: > Yea, done tried that. I tried different kernels, different nvidia > drivers and all with no change. WAG - have you tried the nv drivers? -- Neil Bothwick The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten per cent of its capacity ... the rest is

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-10 Thread Grant
>> I've put together the new system and everything works really well. >> Here's the Gigabyte motherboard: >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128490 >> >> - Grant >> > Nice mobo.  I always want a lot of slots but rarely use them.  I'm stuck in > the old days where the mob

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

2011-07-10 Thread Dale
pk wrote: On 2011-07-10 00:26, Dale wrote: Basically, this is plain confusing. I can't see how Firefox, or something it has to access, can cause a kernel panic. Thing is, I can't think of anything else that could be the problem but trying different versions of a kernel makes me think it i

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

2011-07-10 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:55:01 -0500, Dale wrote: 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. It won't have reached the install stag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-10 Thread john
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:54:10 +0200 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 10.07.2011 12:22, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > > john [11-07-10 12:08]: > >> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:25:42 +0200 > >> meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >> > >>> Nikos Chantziaras [11-07-10 08:12]: > On 07/10/2011 03:23 AM, Dale wro

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

2011-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:55:01 -0500, Dale wrote: > 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. It won't have reached the install stage, so the only filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:56:42 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Apart from the need to access legacy data, which Harry has resolved by > > reformatting, is there any benefit in using encfs rather than the > > in-kernel ecryptfs these days? > > Are you using ecryptfs? I started looking around and t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT encfs] When encfs gets hungup

2011-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:31:45 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > I wasn't suggesting that. But when the main reason for sticking with > > the > > older option is that you have a working system with data in it, the > > loss > > of both of those is a good time to investigate the newer > > alternative.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.07.2011 12:22, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > john [11-07-10 12:08]: >> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:25:42 +0200 >> meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> >>> Nikos Chantziaras [11-07-10 08:12]: On 07/10/2011 03:23 AM, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 07/10/2011 12:59 AM, john wro

Re: [gentoo-user] bridge

2011-07-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.07.2011 16:50, schrieb Daniel Hilst Selli: > Hi people, I'm using brctl to create bridges for some qemu guests... > > I create a br0 with brctl addbr br0 > the I attach my wireless card to it with brctl addif br0 eth1 > > Then some times I get right ip with dhcpcd br0 (after doing 'ifconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] bridge

2011-07-10 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 07/10/11 10:50, Daniel Hilst Selli wrote: > Hi people, I'm using brctl to create bridges for some qemu guests... > > I create a br0 with brctl addbr br0 > the I attach my wireless card to it with brctl addif br0 eth1 > > Then some times I get right ip with dhcpcd br0 (after doing 'ifconfig > br0

Re: [gentoo-user] bridge

2011-07-10 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Daniel Hilst Selli wrote: > Hi people, I'm using brctl to create bridges for some qemu guests... > > I create a br0 with brctl addbr br0 > the I attach my wireless card to it with brctl addif br0 eth1 > > Then some times I get right ip with dhcpcd br0 (after doing

[gentoo-user] bridge

2011-07-10 Thread Daniel Hilst Selli
Hi people, I'm using brctl to create bridges for some qemu guests... I create a br0 with brctl addbr br0 the I attach my wireless card to it with brctl addif br0 eth1 Then some times I get right ip with dhcpcd br0 (after doing 'ifconfig br0 promisc up') but some times I got an strange ip The q

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

2011-07-10 Thread pk
On 2011-07-10 00:26, Dale wrote: > Basically, this is plain confusing. I can't see how Firefox, or > something it has to access, can cause a kernel panic. Thing is, I can't > think of anything else that could be the problem but trying different > versions of a kernel makes me think it is not the

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

2011-07-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 01:46:08AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Joshua Murphy wrote: > >gdb is the GNU Debugger. As for the usability of strace in your case, > >if you can see the last few calls before the lock-up occurs, it could > >help narrow things down a bit. Also, if you SSH into the machine and > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-10 Thread meino . cramer
john [11-07-10 12:08]: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:25:42 +0200 > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Nikos Chantziaras [11-07-10 08:12]: > > > On 07/10/2011 03:23 AM, Dale wrote: > > > >Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > >>On 07/10/2011 12:59 AM, john wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>>Help. > > > >>> > > > >>>I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-10 Thread john
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:25:42 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras [11-07-10 08:12]: > > On 07/10/2011 03:23 AM, Dale wrote: > > >Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > >>On 07/10/2011 12:59 AM, john wrote: > > >>> > > >>>Help. > > >>> > > >>>I have tried everything to remove thunderbugs whi

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

2011-07-10 Thread Dale
Joshua Murphy wrote: On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Dalewrote: It works as long as I don't open Firefox. If I open Firefox, poof!! No more trapped smoke. lol Dale So I had suggested runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbugs

2011-07-10 Thread meino . cramer
Nikos Chantziaras [11-07-10 08:12]: > On 07/10/2011 03:23 AM, Dale wrote: > >Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>On 07/10/2011 12:59 AM, john wrote: > >>> > >>>Help. > >>> > >>>I have tried everything to remove thunderbugs which are causing > >>>havoc > >>>behind my screen. Small black mites have taken