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Re: Debian crashes



Tim Raats wrote:
Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

On Monday 26 July 2004 21:32, Tim Raats wrote:
Debian crashes on the strangest moments. Im running Sarge with kernel
2.4.26. When im surfing the internet with Mozilla Firefox 0.8, Debian
sometimes crashes.


Quick answer: Use a different version/build of Firefox.

Now, are you sure the machine is "crashing"? What does that mean? Can you install the SSH server and login to it from a different machine, or ping its address, while it seems "crashed"?

Sometimes a graphical application locks the keyboard and the user perceives this as a "crash", although it really isn't a system crash - it's the stupid X server not being able to accept input from the devices any more. If for example you leave some program with dynamic output (e.g. top) running in an xterm, do you still see it updating after the system becomes unresponsive?

Make sure this isn't happening, try to get out of X with Ctrl-Alt-F1 and see if you can troubleshoot from there.

I dont know what the source of this problem is. Im running KDE 3.2.3 also. Please I need help because if I want crashes
than I should install Window$ again.


If instability is the only thing that annoys you in M$ products, then I agree with you; you really should.

-A


I also had this problem also with the version in unstable. I have also tried ctrl-alt-F1 and it doesnt switch to tty1.



Are you overclocking?

Install mprime from "www.mersenne.org/prime.html". Use the test option of mprime. Makes a very good hardware tester. Very good for testing the cpu.

Install memtest86+ to check out your memory.

HTH
Charles



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