My system has been a little quirky lately. It would crash while I was away. Firefox would be extremely slow. I ran top a while ago and klogd and Firefox were swapping top spot on the cpu utilization 90-100%. I killed klogd and restarted Firefox. I looked at dmesg and found problems. I just don't know how to interpret what I found and how to correct them. Output of 2 grep'd dmesg commands are as follows: bob@java:~$ dmesg | grep error [ 62.931038] usb 1-7: can't read configurations, error -71 [ 63.186600] usb 1-7: can't read configurations, error -71 [ 142.494617] powertweakd[7132]: segfault at 0000000000000006 rip 00002ac250f76620 rsp 00007fff5a308918 error 4 [51801.216509] gnash[24098]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aeed938cd51 rsp 00007fffd4dd3270 error 4 [124888.682708] gaim[32634]: segfault at 0000000000000038 rip 000000000048a286 rsp 00007fff768c1850 error 4 [415604.867624] hardinfo[18449]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002b4995dc9090 rsp 00007fff1808ea38 error 4 [425596.123399] wammu[25540]: segfault at 0000000000000018 rip 00002aaaab701433 rsp 00000000407ff870 error 4 [425654.383243] wammu[25588]: segfault at 0000000000000018 rip 00002aaaab4f4433 rsp 00000000407ff870 error 4 [427470.801681] gnash[26855]: segfault at 000000000077f000 rip 00002aebdc48a046 rsp 0000000040884688 error 6 [722535.148800] mono[30994]: segfault at 00000000400106c8 rip 000000000042ab76 rsp 0000000040010550 error 6 [943001.057858] usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [992396.234002] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [992392.255888] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [992392.272775] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [992396.345734] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [993800.972097] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [993800.984252] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [993805.116078] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [993805.132066] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [993805.147313] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [993805.160372] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [993806.553543] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [993802.488033] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [993802.519785] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [993806.589780] [<ffffffff8026806d>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 [1426661.974263] gaim[12001]: segfault at 0000000000000038 rip 000000000048a286 rsp 00007fffcbbcc240 error 4 [1542831.178115] usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [1542851.757105] usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -62 [1542851.763094] usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -62 [1542852.866218] usb 2-2: device descriptor read/all, error -62 [1542899.460863] usb 2-2: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [1641377.262449] dbus-daemon[19445]: segfault at 000000000000001c rip 000000000042f020 rsp 00007fffd27a8fc8 error 6 bob@java:~$ dmesg | grep hald [993805.160242] hald invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0 [993805.171987] No available memory (MPOL_BIND): kill process 6401 (hald) score 0 or a child [993805.172028] Killed process 6402 (hald-runner) [993806.589614] hald-addon-stor invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0 [993806.601406] No available memory (MPOL_BIND): kill process 6443 (hald-addon-stor) score 0 or a child [993806.601450] Killed process 6443 (hald-addon-stor) [993806.602180] No available memory (MPOL_BIND): kill process 6445 (hald-addon-stor) score 0 or a child [993806.602187] Killed process 6445 (hald-addon-stor) [993806.602794] No available memory (MPOL_BIND): kill process 6464 (hald-addon-stor) score 0 or a child [993806.602801] Killed process 6464 (hald-addon-stor) [993802.533727] No available memory (MPOL_BIND): kill process 6462 (hald-addon-stor) score 0 or a child [993802.533734] Killed process 6462 (hald-addon-stor) Additionally, my nVidia driver doesn't seem to be using video cards hardware. Graphics is slow with a 7600GS. Any help in solving these issues will be greatly appreciated. Bob