KDE 3.5 Crashing

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Friday, June 15, 2007 a las 09:33:27PM +1000, Gemma Fletcher escribió:

> Edit: Resending as having problems with my mail.  If it pops up twice then 
> apologies :)
> 
> Hi list :)
> 
> Installed BSD 6.2 a few days ago and am totally new to it all.  I installed 
> KDE 3.5 and it was working nicely until it just....stopped.
> 
> No obvious crash - it just froze.  Had to reboot the system with the reset 
> button as no other method was working.
> 
> So I thought  it might be my sound <since it wasn't configured> and I had read 
> a few things that said that sometimes caused KDE to crash.  Also disabled a 
> few buggy plugins and what not and still it keeps on freezing on me.
> 
> The annoying thing is its totally random - It could be running for several 
> hours before it freezes; and sometimes it freezes the moment I log on.  Its 
> frozen at last count 7 times today and I ended up having to do a some random 
> hardrive check as boot up was starting to fail and logging me in as single 
> mode user only.
> 
> Anyway - to get to the point; is there a log somewhere that I can check out in 
> console mode <which incidently never crashes> that might help me pinpoint the 
> problem?

Can you check if only X or KDE is frozen, or the system at all?
Try to connect from some other host on the network.
Try to do some RAM testing as well.

	matthias
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