Rick Thomas wrote:
The computer in question is an OldWorld PowerMac Apple Macintosh,
"Beige G3" tower. This problem only happens on this machine. It
does not occur on my G4 test box.
I have a Beige G3 "Gossamer", not a tower, but it's practically the
same.
I'd very much appreciate it if somebody else with a beige G3 would
try it and let me know if they see the same problem.
I noticed the same behaviour a few months ago. As I generally run
Window Maker/GNUstep on that machine, I just ignored that as I thought
there is something broken in my configuration. I'll try to find out
what's wrong, but that won't happen in the forthcoming weeks.
Apparently this has nothing to do with the installation CDs, as my
machine has been running Debian for ages. One thing you could do, as
a startup, is to attach gdb to that applet and see what's crashing
it. That might give you a clue where to investigate further.