From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 18:32: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web1.allunix.com (17.93.rsvl.dsl.quiknet.com [207.231.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B9037BECB for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:31:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@allunix.com) Received: from laptop ([192.168.3.5]) by web1.allunix.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA05148 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:36:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@allunix.com) Message-Id: <200003290236.SAA05148@web1.allunix.com> From: dave@allunix.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:41:47 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FBSD + KDE + Netscape == STABLE?? In-reply-to: <00032821055800.00378@urim> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v3.12b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you running 3.4 Release or stable? I have never had any problems but I know that there have been complaints in the past about the port of netscape to FreeBSD being unstable. What version of Netscape and KDE are you using? Did you build them from the ports collection? More information would be great. David DeTinne On 28 Mar 00, at 21:27, Jim Freeze wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message