On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra(a)iastate.edu> wrote:
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:25:17 -0500 Marcel Rieux
<m.z.rieux(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra(a)iastate.edu> wrote:
>
> >> Maybe if I could redirect the system to the right copy of Firefox, it
> >> would solve all problems? How is this done?
> >
> > Just checking: did you quit your firefox and restart after the update?
> > This may solve most of your problems, if not.
>
> There was a kernel update and I reboot every day anyways.
Reboot every day? Hmmmm....that sounds like Windozy....anyway, what you
are seeing can happen if firefox is not restarted: I am presuming you
did quit firefox and restart after the update.
I looks like somebody running a computer in Canada and not caring
about heat dissipation in the room.
To make the story long, in reality, I've had the problem of grayed out
options for maybe 3 months and not much time and incentive to look
into the problem. Since I have a fairly noisy fan ($60 casing
including PSU) and I'm just keeping an eye open for decent one that
won't cost one third the price of the casing, I shut down the computer
at night.
> >> I must admit I've seen the little red rat appear
quite often lately in
> >> the top panel. I try not to care too much about it, but it seems there
> >> are consequences.
> >
> > Little red rat? I don't have anything of that sort here: I confess I am
> > using the LXDE spin, though.
>
> I believe this "little red hat" appears when you install software to
> report kernel... instabilities or something like that.
I see: this is the abrt tool. It is a pain and a joke. I have been
tempted to get rid of it.
I suppose you're a SELinux Troubleshooter man :) But some pretend the
abrt tool does a better job:
"I’m a big fan of the new Abrt tool which can produce and file
detailed information for developers in a Bugzilla bug with just a few
clicks, and also the improvements to the SELinux Troubleshooter, which
do essentially the same thing."
http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?tag=fedora-12
As for myself, I, of course, have no idea.
> I must admit I never sent those reports:
>
> 1st: Like, from "all" the answers I've received so far, for most
> people here, it would look like a bad joke.
>
> 2nd: Before sending a report, you are warned that you are sending
> sensitive data on an unencrypted connection. I thought I'd refrain.
It downloads hundreds of debuginfo rpms first, regardless of whether
you use it or not, from what it seems.
This is certainly a nightmare!
I meant specs of the system. That is typically most helpful to
diagnose
a problem, if any.
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassV...
The CPU is an AMD Phenom II X3.
Thanks for your help. I was far from sure I'd get some on this one.