Mozilla keeps crashing

[rgoble]

I just installed slackware 10.1 on a Dell Latitude D600 and X and Mozilla were working fine. So I switched over to the 2.6 kernel to try and get the wireless card working, which I was able to do. However now Mozilla crashes all the time and it is very annoying. I am also having problems with other programs in X crashing as well and i think the problems might be related. Here is a copy of my syslog showing the lines from the mozilla crash. If you need more information please let me know.


Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: printing eip:
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: e0c94019
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: *pde = 00000000
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: Modules linked in: driverloader ipv6 smbfs ohci_hcd intel_agp uhci_hcd ehci_hcd tg3 pcmcia yenta_socket pcmcia_core evdev agpgart psmouse reiserfs
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: CPU: 0
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: EIP: 0060:[<e0c94019>] Tainted: P VLI
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: EFLAGS: 00210286 (2.6.10)
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: EIP is at driverloader368_+0x1040/0x1137 [driverloader]
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: eax: c0102fa0 ebx: 00200282 ecx: 00000007 edx: c0100000
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c0102fa0 ebp: d06ebfc4 esp: d06ebfc4
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: Process mozilla-bin (pid: 8132, threadinfo=d06ea000 task=cf8ea540)
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: Stack: 4135d6e8 00002148 bfffd8e0 3d888889 bfffd8e0 bfffd868 00001734 0000007b
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: 0000007b 00000007 413a7a9e 00000073 00210286 bfffd850 0000007b
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 1 17:34:19 latitude kernel: Code: 00 8e da 8e c2 83 ec 04 89 e0 50 e8 42 dc ff ff 83 c4 08 80 7c 24 fc 00 0f 84 ea 00 00 00 9c 5b 89 c6 e8 0b de ff ff 89 c7 89 e5 <8b> 46 08 50 89 66 08 8b 66 04 58 89 46 04 8b 45 24 50 e8 10 de

[lakerdonald]

Did you do anything weird with your kernel (i.e. use unstable/development patches, compile with insane optimizations, etc.)?

[rgoble]

Nope, I am using the bare 2.6 kernel that came prebuilt on the slackware cd. I suppose i could try building the 2.6 kernel and see if that helps. Also when I switched back to using the 2.4 kernel the crashing stoped.

Thanks for any help.

[lakerdonald]

Yeah, try building 2.6.x by hand.