On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Dale wrote:
> YoYo Siska wrote:
> >I guess it starts to download it to a temp file, than moves it to the
> >file you choose (never looked into it)... so the problem would be most
> >likely in that operation..
> I just find it downright odd that a browser causes a panic because
> of a download when other programs, like emerge, can download just
> fine.
Dale, what YoYo meant was precisely that: emerge gets files using wget
(unless you configured it otherwise) which writes directly to the
directory, whereas Firefox would first download something to (I guess)
/tmp and (according to YoYo) write it to the "correct" name/directory
once you give it to the browser. So YoYo is suspecting that it is this
move of the file from /tmp (or whereever) to your download directory
that is giving the kernel panic.
BTW, you mentioned that this happened after a power-outage. Have you
completely checked your disks and filesystem's health?
W
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Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
