I have my laptop set up nicely with Slack 11 on it. I was having trouble with Firefox in KDE, so I thought I would upgrade to FF2.0 just for the hell of it.

When I went to remove the firefox package in pkgtool the computer crashed. I didn't think anything of it and rebooted. This time when I went to remove it pkgtool turned to a fast scrolling screen of text then stopped with "kernel panic" and the entire computer was dead. I had to pull the battery out to get it to restart. I then tried to upgradepkg using the firefox package I had, and that 'worked'. Firefox works in KDE, but I still canno remove the package due to this fault occurring.

I just wanted to know if there was a way to get rid of firefox so I can install it again. I don't wanna try anything else myself, as pulling my battery out all the time can't be all that good for the system

Thanks in advance!

cool!
the only reason i can think of is the filesystem. run a fsck on it, just to be sure and try "removepkg firefox" once again.
what kernel do you have?

(most laptops can be shut down by pushing down the power button for a few seconds)

I am running 2.6.19 on reiserfs partitions.

When I get my panic, the entire laptop freezes, including the power button. Nothing works at all, even the hard switch for Wifi (should turn off the little LED but doesn't).

EDIT: I ran fsck on my root partition and it says there are fatal corruptions and to run with --rebuild-tree. So I am doing that now.

EDIT #@: Well... that worked. Thanks heaps!

Is there a way to fsck on a write enabled mount? I had to boot using my slack DVD and run fsck that way. Just wondering for future reference.

that wifi switch is not a good test. usually leds are managed by kernel modules. kernel panic means, that every operation has been stopped(the CPU won't take any new instruction)
just try holding down the button for 10 secs and the system should go down (that is implemented in hardware)

sure there is a way. but you don't realy want to, since this can result in even harder filesytem corruption.