> Sounds like you're running out of disk space / memory for the normal user, > while root still has his 5% reserved space to use. I had a weird problem like > this once.
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 3842376 1123240 2523948 31% / /dev/hda2 15554 4617 10134 32% /boot /dev/hda6 964500 104568 810936 12% /users filesrv:/users 15360000 13087056 2137216 86% /home Moreover, the crashes actually most often happen when I'm logged in as a normal user and do a "su"-command to apt-get something for example > Also, check the writing permissions for normal users in general. Maybe the > user can not write to swap /tmp or such. these are also ok, I've added myself to almost any group because I also thought this could have to do something with it, but no result :-( Anyway, thx a lot for the suggestion! Klaas
