From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 18 06:04:16 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 D706C16A400 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:04:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B94313C46C for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:04:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5I64C6v048262; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:04:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id l5I64CmH048258; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:04:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:04:12 -0400 (EDT) From: doug To: Gemma Fletcher In-Reply-To: <200706152133.27118.slvhwke@optusnet.com.au> Message-ID: <20070618012935.S5906@fledge.watson.org> References: <200706152133.27118.slvhwke@optusnet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:04:13 +0100 (BST) 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: doug@safeport.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:04:16 -0000 On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Gemma Fletcher wrote: > 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? > > Thanks in advance, > Gemma I apologize in advance if this advice is too rudimentary. Sounds more like hardware. You did not say how you tested your memory. If you did not use Memtest86, get and run that. Also run fsck manually. If the hardware checks out okay, you can try to isolate what is failing. Turn of various compoents one at a time. For example turn off the wireles interface and work normally. If that still fails, set up a dd command or a benchmark program to run under kde buut without the network. You can set up either of these to run overnight so you should get a good idea that the test worked or not. If you get a failure without the network repeat the test using twm (its built into xorg). If all this fails to identify the problem you need at least to get a kernel dump. The developers handbook has information on this. Hope this helps, DougD