program launcher going wild

[Colin Law]

On 29 June 2012 21:57, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 June 2012 21:46, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried running memtest from the boot options for a few hours.
>> I wonder whether you have a hardware problem.
>
> As Gene said,
>
>> FWIW, memtest86 was run a full cycle earlier this morning, no errors.

Good point.

>
> Then again, a flaky piece of ram is exceptionally unlikely to be
> producing the issues being experienced here.

Exceptionally unusual symptoms may demand exceptionally unlikely
causes, but I think you are correct.

Colin