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 :-) :-)
