On 10/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I love my new Debian distro because the package management is great. > However, I have been having serious problems with the desktop, both > Gnome and KDE. > Firefox regularly crashes during downloads or when clicking an upload > button on a html form or when encountered with websites like ebay, which > make heavy use of javascript. > Also GIMP crashes as soon as I ask it to save something, which as you can > imagine is pretty annoying. > Never had these problems with SuSE or other distros but don't want to go > back to them as I love the debian package management system. > As I usually work in the console only I have zero knowledge of the > desktops and have no clue where to start looking in order to > troubleshoot this problem. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the > desktop many times but it has made no difference, the problem is still > there. I have even reinstalled the entire distro but the problem still > recurrs. > Everyone I have spoken to who uses Debian has not experienced these > problems and so I am wondering if the problems are related to conflicts > with my hardware. I have installed on amilo pro laptop. Sorry I can't > gove any more information about the problem. > > Any pointers in the right direction of where to start looking in order to > troubleshoot this problem would be much appreciated. > >
Sound's like RAM fault. You haven't stated your platform, but I'll assume it's x86 $ > apt-get install memtest86 %1% If using grub as your boot loader: Reboot your machine, at the initial boot image selection screen press 'c' to go into grub's command prompt. grub> kernel /boot/memtest86.bin grub> boot %2% Otherwise, [make-memtest86-boot-floppy] to create memtest86 floppy boot disk. Run it to verify your RAM... If tests show all good it might be faulty CPU or MB. HTH -- Cheers, Maxim Vexler (hq4ever). Do u GNU ?