I've had a hard drive fail after one month. .

When I buy a hard drive nowadays, I always keep the receipt.

BTW, I also recommended testing your CPU and RAM, and mentioned software to do it with.

i was able to install kaffeine and kaffeine-mozilla no
problem using SBOpkg.

Did you check the MD5 of the ISO that you downloaded?

And as for installing amule and wxGtk from linuxpackages, there is a world of difference between installing a pre-built package and compiling your own. So the fact that they installed is not really meaningful.

Have you tried building other things?

yeah i tried codeblocks using sbopkg and it failed.
i had to goto the site and download the source.

from a live Ubuntu disk i ran gparted's check option
on my partitions, and it successfully completed.

But that really does not test the kinds of things that will show up under a busy compiler session.

As far as other packages, you could not compile wxPython, a large package, and kaffeine source is only about 2% the size of the wxGtk source (see below) which would make a huge difference in the memory usage, disk accesses, CPU usage, etc... those types of comparison just don't mean much.

12860535 2008-09-22 02:12 wxGTK-2.8.9.tar.gz
272825 2010-03-25 23:14 kaffeine-1.0-pre2.tar.gz
223559 2010-03-25 23:19 kaffeine-mozilla-0.2.tar.bz2

You need to run some meaningful tests on your RAM, CPU and hard drive. I suggest testing the RAM first - because nothing else will test reliably if you have bad RAM.

Hope this helps.

ok.
what progams(i hope free) do i need to run the sorta test
ur talking about ?

Memtest for memory. MPrime (or Prime95 under Windows) for CPU.

I have used this one, free download:

http://www.memtest86.com/

I also found this one, also free, but I am not familiar with myself:

http://www.memtest.org/

Download the ISO and burn CD, boot to it and let it run...

EDIT:

FWIW here is a wikipedia article on both, mostly helpful I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memtest86

/EDIT:

ok the ubuntu has a memtest option i ran it
the wall time stoped at 7:40 pass 22% test 59%
it dosn't show any errors .
it looks like its frozen.
i hit esc to reboot and it dosn't do anything !!!
what do i do ??

sometimes tests get a lot to complete but if it gets stuck, you can turn the power off (unplug the cable) then give it back.

but if it gets stuck something is definitely wrong with your hardware: I had similar random segfault not ram-related in the past also when a k6-2 cpu fan broke (and so cpu, after).

should i buy sun new ram?

could be also the slots, you have to try to be sure.

u mean the slots on the mother board?

yes, the ram slots.