Brandon N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My box recently locked up twice, I believe due to static shock. > > Now when I start gnome it says gnome-panel could not start due to > segmentation fault. A couple of other applications also got > segmentations faults. > > Is this likely due to a hardware problem (memory) or did something get > corrupted due to the two hard reboots (library perhaps).
Could be either, I would think. Did fsck find any fs corruption when I ran after the hard resets? Anything turn up in lost+found? Look into memtest (in sysutils) and memtest86 to test the memory. > Is there a way to compare an installed package with the package > contents to see if something does not match what was installed from the > package? I'm not sure about this, but if you suspect a lib in particular, you can try reinstalling it with 'apt-get install --reinstall ...' -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bignachos.com
