From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 11:41:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD24316A477 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:41:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from M.Apitz@oclcpica.org) Received: from mail.pica.nl (mail.pica.nl [192.87.44.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5043113C4C3 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:41:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from M.Apitz@oclcpica.org) Received: from rebelion.Sisis.de ([193.31.10.34]) by mail.pica.nl with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:41:07 +0200 Received: (from guru@localhost) by rebelion.Sisis.de (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l5FBfAmh076476; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:41:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from m.apitz@oclcpica.org) X-Authentication-Warning: rebelion.Sisis.de: guru set sender to m.apitz@oclcpica.org using -f Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:41:10 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: Gemma Fletcher Message-ID: <20070615114110.GA76255@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <200706152133.27118.slvhwke@optusnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200706152133.27118.slvhwke@optusnet.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (i386) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jun 2007 11:41:07.0600 (UTC) FILETIME=[10171900:01C7AF42] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE 3.5 Crashing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:41:14 -0000 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 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 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 -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC PICA GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://guru.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ OCLC PICA GmbH, Geschaeftsfuehrer: Christine Magin-Weeger, Norbert Weinberger Sitz der Gesellschaft: Oberhaching, HRB Muenchen: 113261