I had a weird situation on my computer, which ended with a panic, and
during that firefox-bin would not save target files consistently, and
would actually crash. I'll detail this situation first,
in case its relevant. I run stable CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
Firstly rtorrent crashed with a segment fault. It restarted and worked.
The next day firefox-bin would not "save link as", I could navigate
to a directory, and on pushing "save" either nothing would happen or
firefox would crash.
I emerged the latest mozilla-firefox-bin without any trouble, but
almost every package in world failed MD5 verification on the tarball.
Realising I had either a file system or hard drive problem, I closed
KDE and used the console (as root) to clean up /var/tmp and /home in
anticipation of a backup/restore. During this the system
panic'd.
I booted the 2006.0 universal CD and did a "fsck -cfv /dev/hda6" (my
large root partition)
which reported some multiply chained blocks (nothing critical, part of
the portage tree, and something in KDE) , 1 lost file (web cookies) .
# grep hda6 /etc/fstab
/dev/hda6 / ext3 noatime
0 1
I'm also puxxled why hda6 is never fsck'd during boot, I though having
that last 1 would check it every time.
After the fsck the system works normally, I emerged system & world
with no problems.
firefox-bin still refuses to save links, but no longer crashes, but
after some time idling, it eats all CPU and has to be kill -9'd.
I'm getting by with Konqueror, however Google Mail is not very nice in
this browser.
So not a big problem, just worried that it might be symptomatic of
something serious.
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