From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 17:30:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darkstar.qx.net (darkstar.qx.net [208.235.88.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC0537C0FB for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:30:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Received: from mail2.qx.net (mail.qx.net [208.235.88.233]) by darkstar.qx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA13091 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:30:52 -0500 Received: from urim ([208.200.110.208]) by mail2.qx.net (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with SMTP id AAB5D7 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:28:58 -0500 From: Jim Freeze Reply-To: jim@freeze.org To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FBSD + KDE + Netscape == STABLE?? Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:27:12 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00032821055800.00378@urim> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have recently converted my home windows system to FBSD. While it has been quite a learning experience, and I am still very much a newbie, I am enjoying my new OS. In addition, I have installed it on a machine at work, and things seem to be running fine. However, despite all I have been reading, my experience with the stability of fbsd on my home machine has been less than satisfactory. I am running 3.4-Release with KDE. Over the last two days, my system has crashed 3 times. Two times happened immediately after closing a netscape 4.72 browser window and once after closing a kppp config dialog. FreeBSD Stable & KDE == Stable?? Usually I was doing several things at once, and all three times I was connected to the internet with a modem using user ppp. I knew I was in trouble in each case when my mouse froze up. Shortly thereafter my system would do an automatic reboot. Trying to repeat the steps after the reboot to see if I could get it to crash again have always failed. Has anyone had these types of experiences? Is it just me? :) No, I was not logged in as root. Also, I can understand netscape or KDE being buggy and crashing, but shouldn't fbsd be robust enough to not die? I thought that's what un*x was all about. Thanks for any help, or consolation, here. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message