Re: Debian Crash
Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote:
>
> what version of Netscape were you using ? The latest 4.5 or the older 4.0.
>
> I recently installed the 4.5 on my SMP system and have been having system
> freezes happening at least once a day.
>
> On 11-Nov-98 Rich Harran. wrote:
> > My Debian system just crashed. This has never happened before, which is
> > one of the things I like about Linux.
> >
> > I've got a pretty standard Hamm system, and I was running X with emacs
> > (20), xmix, and netscape, with a navigator and mail window open. I went
> > on a webpage I've visited many times before (www.tomshardware.com), and
> > everything seized up: the mouse wouldn't move, I couldn't move between
> > virtual desktops and I couldn't move between virtual teminals. I waited a
> > couple of minutes, then tried <cntl><alt><backspace>, then
> > <cntl><alt><del>, neither of which had any effect whatsoever, so I
> > pressed the big red button, and restarted that way.
> >
> > The only non-Debian software I have installed is xaudio, an X window mpeg
> > layer 3 audio player, which is off /root/mpeg (I was just trying it out).
> > My hardware is an old(ish) Cyrix 6x86 (M1) P200+ on a SuperMicro P5xtra
> > motherboard, 32mb DRAM (2simms), Matrox millenium 4mb, WD harddrive,
> > mitsumi Cd rom, soundblaster awe64 pnp, microsoft serial mouse.
> >
> > Up 'till now, everything seems to have been working fine (I've had random
> > crashes under win95, but I think that's a feature of the OS).
> >
> > My questions:
> >
> > Is there a problem with my hardware (it's quite old)?
> > Was there a problem with Linux?
> > If not, is there now?
> > If so, how do I fix it?
> > What should I do to test the components in my system individually?
> > I put it together myself (about 2 years ago), so I don't
> > mind poking around inside.
> >
> >
Netscape occaisionly crashs on me too. It is almost certainly a
problem with Netscape, or X11, and not Linux itself.
--
Ed C.
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