[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I love my new Debian distro because the package management is great. >However, I have been having serious problems with the desktop, both >Gnome and KDE. >Firefox regularly crashes during downloads or when clicking an upload >button on a html form or when encountered with websites like ebay, which >make heavy use of javascript. >Also GIMP crashes as soon as I ask it to save something, which as you can >imagine is pretty annoying. >Never had these problems with SuSE or other distros but don't want to go >back to them as I love the debian package management system. >As I usually work in the console only I have zero knowledge of the >desktops and have no clue where to start looking in order to >troubleshoot this problem. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the >desktop many times but it has made no difference, the problem is still >there. I have even reinstalled the entire distro but the problem still >recurrs. >Everyone I have spoken to who uses Debian has not experienced these >problems and so I am wondering if the problems are related to conflicts >with my hardware. I have installed on amilo pro laptop. Sorry I can't >gove any more information about the problem. > >Any pointers in the right direction of where to start looking in order to >troubleshoot this problem would be much appreciated. > > My first step would be to check /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog. Look for *any* kind of error messages. With the programs like Firefox or The GIMP, I would run those programs from a command line, so that when they crash, you might be able to see (in the console) some clue as to why they died.
Good luck. I can assure you that Debian is normally very well behaved. -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
