Programs keep crashing

markb658 · 05-27-2005, 05:46 AM

I'm using RH9, KDE 3.1, And my programs keep crashing for no reason, mostly Gaim, Firefox and the odd time Konqueror. They will freeze for maybe one second then just exit with no warning or crash notice!, Any ideas? Would Upgrading to KDE 3.4 fix it do you think?

melinda_sayang · 05-27-2005, 08:13 AM

What about upgrade ur distro???? seriously, rh 9 is so outdated. If I were not mistaken, I remember have similar problem. The problem went away when I update with up2date my system.

Hope that helps.

markb658 · 05-27-2005, 08:27 AM

I know what ya mean! Every inch of me wants to upgrade to FC3, But theres no drivers for my modem for FC, And i cant have linux without the net!, But as soon as a drivers pops up i'll be upgrading, Actually i mite try googling for one again!...

misc · 06-01-2005, 12:26 PM

Red Hat Linux 9 including the KDE which came with it was very stable for me. Never seen such crashes.

Start those programs (firefox, konqueror) in a graphical terminal and/or gdb. Make sure you have all errata packages installed which had been released for Red Hat Linux 9 before it was declared unsupported. Also run memtest86 on your machine to give your RAM chips some tests. Spontaneous crashes often indicate hardware instability.

bramhastra · 06-02-2005, 05:02 AM

what about idea of reinstalling just try and see if it works