Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:21:58 +1300 From: Ben Washington-Yule <benwy_01@yahoo.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Diagnosing program crashes. Message-ID: <417F76C6.8080904@yahoo.com.au>
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I have just destroyed a keyboard over this utterly frustrating problem; Evolution, (usr/ports/mail/evolution) crashes only about 1-2 minutes of use and by crash I mean that it crashes the entire system; screen freezes, keyboard locks up, have to flick switch off at back of computer. These crashes are not occasional; they happen after Evolution has been open for 1-2 minutes without fail. I have had this same problem with opera and linux-opera before but I pretended it just "didn't happen" and quickly deinstalled the ports (I was convinced it was impossible to crash FreeBSD - now I relise FreeBSD wasn't at fault - it was the programs in question). I need to know where to start looking to diagnose this problem; I don't expect anyone will be able to say exactly what is causing the problem as it could be anything I suppose but I would like some pointers on what to do to try and solve the problem myself. There are no *.core files or any sign that the app has crashed after a reboot and thus I am completely clueless as to where to start looking for signs thereof. Many thanks for any help or pointers in general, - Ben
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