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apps keep crashing
Hi,
I have this weird problem. some of the apps like gnome-system-monitor, gnome-power-preferences, nm-applet(when clicked on edit connections) keep crashing. the moment I log in into my gnome desktop, all the apps work fine for a minute. the problem starts after a while say 5 mins... I will not be able to run any of these apps. I always get the crash window. Iam using fedora 11 on a toshiba satellite m200. this problem has been there for a long time now. initially I thought that software updates will make it ok. but even after several updates, the apps keep crashing. is there a way to fix this?. everytime I need to access them, I need to logout and login and then acces them quickly before they start to crash. this is quite time consuming and irritating. thanks in advance. |
can you post the error
when you run the" apps?" from the terminal . and what is in your logs about this ? /var/log/???? messages,Xorg.0.log,dmesg, |
When was the last time that you physically cleaned (canned air works good) out the laptop? The five minute lag sounds like a heat issue to me.
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hi john,
following the output I get when I run from terminal.. [output] [WARN 19010] polkit-error.c:143:polkit_error_get_error_message(): error != NULL Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace ** (gnome-system-monitor:19010): WARNING **: Failed to initialize PolicyKit context: (null) [WARN 19010] polkit-error.c:156:polkit_error_free(): error != NULL Not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace 69d35af4-c5fc-a3f2-52dde3b4-10891a48 is dumped [/output] there is no entry of the error in /var/log/messages. could it be that there is some service that gets started which causes the problem. hi lazlow, I dont think that cud be the reason because the apps work momentarily when I login. if I logout and login even when the laptop is turned on for almost a day, the apps work but only for a few minutes. thanks for the replies. looking forward to sorting this out. :) |
from the errors
do you have any errors or warnings in " SELinux TroubleShooter " /Applications / System Tools / SELinux TroubleShooter |
I have disabled SELinux . I never understood its use anyway.. I disabled it because I thought it might make the system faster.
however, I have clicked on the SE trouble shooter but I was not diplayed any window. what is the terminal command for this. thanks. |
Hi,
I was finally able to simulate this error. THe problem occurs when I access my windows partitions which are all in ntfs. the moment I access them the mentioned apps crash after that. To know if this is the one causing the problem, after the apps crash, I unmounted all the windows partitions and then clicked on the apps icons and all of them worked just fine. Any ways to fix them? I am going to perform a thorough disk check on the windows partitions and check again after that. I really dont see the relation between file system errors and the apps crash but somehow they are related. |
Assuming that the windows partitions are NTFS, which NTFS driver are you using and where did you get it from? Last I checked (it has been a while) NTFS support was only available from 3rd party repos.
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I don't remember installing any ntfs drivers for fedora 11. I think it comes with its own set of ntfs drivers now. |
See if you have these two installed:
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the ntfs-3g program is in fedora by default . it should be auto installed
arunvk by chance is this fedora 11 install an " upgrade" from fedora 10 , as in did you do a FRESH install or use upgrade ? |
the following packages are installed for ntfs :-
ntfsprogs-2.0.0-10.fc11.i586 ntfs-3g-2009.4.4-1.fc11.i586 I did a fresh install. |
Did that clear up the issue?
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no the problem is still there even after a complete disk check.
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Do you have beagle running? If so shut it off and see if that helps. Googling showed a few reports of beagle conflicts spitting out errors like this.
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