Lo, on Friday, December 28, Brandon N did write: > 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).
Well, if you didn't change anything else, it could theoretically be either. Another poster mentioned a couple of Debian utils to test memory; the quick-and-dirty way is to recompile (though not necessarily install) your kernel. (Gcc creates a lot of very large, complicated data structures and traverses them repeatedly, so it's very sensitive to memory errors.) > 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? In general, yes, although (as of potato) not all packages provide the necessary data. Check out /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums. Richard
