Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-09-01 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello out there, Pollywog wrote: > > On 30-Aug-2000 CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: > > Have you guys tried ctrl+alt+backspace to get back to the console instead of > > (i) rebooting the box and (ii) telnetting from another machine to issue a > > init 1!!! If that doesn't work, try ctrl+alt+FX

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-31 Thread Brian E. Ermovick
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:27:50AM +0800, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: > Have you guys tried ctrl+alt+backspace to get back to the console instead of > (i) rebooting the box and (ii) telnetting from another machine to issue a > init 1!!! If that doesn't work, try ctrl+alt+FX (where X is the nu

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-30 Thread I. Tura
This is one of my idiosyncracies... Do you have a little electric shock when you touch any metallic part of the computer? If not, interpret the messages Gnome gives you. And start to ask you if it's hardware problem or not. Don't know about Stormix, but

RE: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-30 Thread Phillip Deackes
"CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use Debian/GNU Linux instead! Ahem . . . Storm Linux *is* Debian (with extras). There is no effective difference between Debian Potato and Storm Hail or between Debian Slink and Storm Rain. I have my /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to Debia

RE: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Aug-2000 CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: > Use Debian/GNU Linux instead! That's what I use. I have only occasional crashes, nothing like what the original poster described about his Debian variant. -- Andrew

RE: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
4 AM > To: CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: Apps Crashing a Lot > > > On 30-Aug-2000 CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: > > Have you guys tried ctrl+alt+backspace to get back to the console > instead of > > (i)

RE: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Aug-2000 CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: > Have you guys tried ctrl+alt+backspace to get back to the console instead of > (i) rebooting the box and (ii) telnetting from another machine to issue a > init 1!!! If that doesn't work, try ctrl+alt+FX (where X is the number > representing the co

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread Tal Danzig
On 29 Aug 2000 11:20:20 PDT, Tal Danzig said: [snip] > > I've had Linux programs crash because they are buggy programs (you will find > that in any OS), but I've found Linux itself to be very stable. (My last > reboot on this machine was 56 days ago) > Xcdroast is probably crashing becaus

RE: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
Systems e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us at: http://www.astro.com.my > -Original Message- > From: Pollywog [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 11:47 PM > To: Greg Strockbine. > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: Apps Cras

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread alan
I have also just installed Storm (Hail) Linux - 2000 for eval. and have experienced some problems with apps crashing (when running KDE - I've swicthed to Gnome and things seemed to have quieten down though I haven't really thrashed it yet). I'm still sniffing things out - whilst I like the e

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread Brad
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:37:00AM -0700, Greg Strockbine. wrote: > I moved to Linux to get away from the > unstability of windoze, but I get an > awful lot of apps crashing with Linux. > The operating system itself seems stable, > but not the apps. Personally, i've had much less crashing of apps

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread Tal Danzig
Hello, On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:37:00 -0700 (PDT), Greg Strockbine. said: > I moved to Linux to get away from the > unstability of windoze, but I get an > awful lot of apps crashing with Linux. > The operating system itself seems stable, > but not the apps. > > I'm running stormix hail, bas

Re: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread Morten Liebach
On 29, aug, 2000 at 08:37:00 -0700, Greg Strockbine. wrote: > I moved to Linux to get away from the > unstability of windoze, but I get an > awful lot of apps crashing with Linux. > The operating system itself seems stable, > but not the apps. I can only say that that's contrary to my experiance

RE: Apps Crashing a Lot

2000-08-29 Thread Pollywog
On 29-Aug-2000 Greg Strockbine. wrote: > I moved to Linux to get away from the > unstability of windoze, but I get an > awful lot of apps crashing with Linux. > The operating system itself seems stable, > but not the apps. > > I'm running stormix hail, based on the latest > Debian potato release.