user account crash

[Ron Morse]

This is beginning to sound like a memory problem. You might want to run
memtest from the GRUB menu on the next IPL. 
 
Ron Morse

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 19:56 -0400, Nicolas Ouellette wrote:
> On Friday 22 June 2007 19:36:02 Jeremy Anderson wrote:
> 
> > > They crash, or simply fail to start at all?  Do you get a KDE crash
> > > handler dialog, or do you just see a spinning hourglass that runs for
> > > about 30 seconds before giving up?
> 
> They crash. I get a crash dialog, but it also crashes after a few seconds, so 
> I can't get the error messages I want, crash pile, etc. 
> 
> > > A spinning hourglass is your clue to run the application from a command
> > > line, and see what errors it reports (and then post them.)
> > >
> > > If you get a KDE crash handler dialog, do you get a crash for each
> > > individual application, or are you getting a crash on something else,
> > > like, say, Kicker?
> 
> The crash is for each individual app.  Furthermore, running an app with Alt+F2 
> will crash the "Run" window, the app willl obviously not launch and the 
> desktop will all become black (kicker will not crash though) and reappear 1-2 
> seconds after.
> 
> > >
> > > If you do get a crash dialog for KMail,and one for Konqueror, and one for
> > > digiKam, etc., then what do these crash dialogs have in common?
> 
> Dunno, since I can't get the crash pile!!!
> 
> > >
> > > There's bound to be a clue.  An X authority problem is not a bad idea.
> 
> If this is the problem, then I really don't know what to do about it. 
> 
> > > --
> > > D. Michael McIntyre
> 
> 
> 
> > Please don't forget to look at log files in /var/log or wherever else the
> > program you are trying to run put them.  Syslog messages are usually pretty
> > good.   Running an app from the command line like Michael said is always a
> > good idea too.  
> >
> > Jeremy
> 
> If I start an app from the konsole, konsole will also crash, so, then again, I 
> can't get any error message. DOH!
> 
> I will do some more tests, try to find something in the logs, and be back with 
> more info.
> 
> Thanks,
> __
> Nicolas Ouellette
> M.A. Philosophy
>