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I bought my first laptop a couple of days back:
Dell Inspiron 1525
Core 2 duo 1.83 GHz
2 GB RAM
160 GB hard disk

I usually use GNOME and have found that many applications (Gftp, Kftpgrabber, Gproftpd) are crashing. I am providing the crash report of GProftpd generated by bug-buddy below. Gftp has been installed by yum and also from source code but the problem remains. Kftpgrabber has been installed from the DVD itself and Gproftpd from yum.

Can someone tell me if they had similar problems? Could it be a problem with Gtk or Gnome? Do I need to reinstall these?

I will install KDE and see if the problem persists.

Thanks in advance.

crash report
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System: Linux 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 13:55:12 EDT 2007 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10300000
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Nodoka
Icon Theme: Fedora

Memory status: size: 29949952 vsize: 29949952 resident: 12693504 share: 8146944 rss: 12693504 rss_rlim: 4294967295
CPU usage: start_time: 1209879137 rtime: 9311 utime: 4700 stime: 4611 cutime:1107 cstime: 1774 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 100

Backtrace was generated from '/usr/sbin/gadmin-proftpd'

[?1034hUsing host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1208252208 (LWP 7691)]
0x00110402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#0 0x00110402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0x00c5a953 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x00364a57 in g_spawn_sync () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3 0x00364d6c in g_spawn_command_line_sync () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4 0x0021d350 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so
#5 0x0021d659 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so
#6 0x0021db73 in google_breakpad::ExceptionHandler::InternalWriteMinidump ()
from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so
#7 0x0021e08e in google_breakpad::ExceptionHandler::HandleException ()
from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so
#8 <signal handler called>
#9 0x00c38153 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
#10 0x08065f65 in status_update (widgets=0x8fce408) at status_update.c:281
#11 0x003338c6 in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#12 0x0033310c in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#13 0x0033654f in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#14 0x003368f9 in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#15 0x008c3ae4 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#16 0x0804be09 in main (argc=1, argv=0x4613c0) at gadmin_proftpd.c:272

Thread 1 (Thread -1208252208 (LWP 7691)):
#0 0x00110402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
No symbol table info available.
#1 0x00c5a953 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#2 0x00364a57 in g_spawn_sync () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#3 0x00364d6c in g_spawn_command_line_sync () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#4 0x0021d350 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so
No symbol table info available.
#5 0x0021d659 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so
No symbol table info available.
#6 0x0021db73 in google_breakpad::ExceptionHandler::InternalWriteMinidump ()
from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so
No symbol table info available.
#7 0x0021e08e in google_breakpad::ExceptionHandler::HandleException ()
from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgnomebreakpad.so
No symbol table info available.
#8 <signal handler called>
No symbol table info available.
#9 0x00c38153 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
No symbol table info available.
#10 0x08065f65 in status_update (widgets=0x8fce408) at status_update.c:281
fp = (FILE *) 0x93558b8
transfer_textbuffer = (GtkTextBuffer *) 0x91e3e00
mark = <value optimized out>
transfer_iter = {dummy1 = 0xdb063d, dummy2 = 0x8fbd280, dummy3 = 0, dummy4 = 12892182, dummy5 = 3356273,
dummy6 = -1076706984, dummy7 = 0, dummy8 = 12892182, dummy9 = 0x333671, dummy10 = 0xbfd2c168, dummy11 = 0,
dummy12 = 1209887426, dummy13 = 3498270, dummy14 = 0x3ce218}
in_val = 0
out_val = 0
inxfer = 0
outxfer = 0
totalxfer = 0
incoming = 0
outgoing = <value optimized out>
read_buffer = <value optimized out>
get_buffer = 0x9356420 ""
path = <value optimized out>
cmd = <value optimized out>
pid = <value optimized out>
#11 0x003338c6 in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#12 0x0033310c in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#13 0x0033654f in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#14 0x003368f9 in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#15 0x008c3ae4 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
No symbol table info available.
#16 0x0804be09 in main (argc=1, argv=0x4613c0) at gadmin_proftpd.c:272
fp = <value optimized out>
i = <value optimized out>
conf_path = (gchar *) 0x920def8 "\001"
cmd = (
gchar *) 0xbfd2c3dc "#ØÒ¿6ØÒ¿UØÒ¿`ØÒ¿pØÒ¿ÁØÒ¿ÏØÒ¿\vÙÒ¿\035ÙÒ¿QÙÒ¿gÙÒ¿\205ÙÒ¿\237ÙÒ¿ÐÙÒ¿ÝÙÒ¿ ÛÒ¿½ÛÒ¿êÛÒ¿\032ÜÒ¿+ÜÒ¿yÜÒ¿\221ÜÒ¿9ÝÒ¿VÝÒ¿qÝÒ¿\177ÝÒ¿\224ÝÒ¿¥ÝÒ¿¸ÝÒ¿ÏÝÒ¿àÝÒ¿õÝÒ¿\002ÞÒ¿\025ÞÒ¿HÞÒ¿SÞÒ ¿[ÞÒ¿|ÞÒ¿\214ÞÒ¿\230ÞÒ¿²ÞÒ¿îÞÒ¿PßÒ¿rßÒ¿\177ßÒ¿\214ßÒ¿¡ßÒ¿¿ßÒ¿ØßÒ¿"
broken_fedora = (gchar *) 0xbc4ca0 ""
#0 0x00110402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
The program is running. Quit anyway (and detach it)? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]