On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:54:09AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Just picking a post to reply here and it may have a good point. I > was browsing around to see what software I had for my UPS. I > thought I would download the thing, untar it and just check out the > README file to see what would be involved in installing it on my > rig. It was a tarball so nothing video related or flash related > either. It also didn't use the little download helper tool I been > 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. > > Could this be a network card/driver issue? I have had no problems > so far with emerge downloading anything from the command line. I'm > going to test this by deleting the tarballs for OOo and then > fetching them again. If it doesn't crash, then maybe it is > something related to HOW Seamonkey and Firefox access the net. If > it does crash, then maybe I need a new network card.
I can't believe any userland tool like a navigator could make the whole system crash. It's much deeper than that in the system. Again, it's likely to be a driver issue. You could test your network card by doing a lot of traffic on it (on the LAN to give you better chance to catch any issue), X stopped. Next, you could test X (even mouse and keyboard) by playing some games or whatever you don't do usual. But at *FIRST* as it looks like you didn't do it yet, you have to _check your logs_. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
