I should have included some specs. I guess I was too frustrated to think of that...
Hardware: 500MHz Athlon (NO overclocking, no overheating) 96MB RAM (appended 96M in LILO, and accounted for in 'free') ATI Rage Pro (8MB) Software: Debian 2.2 (Potato net-installation) 128MB Swap XF86_Mach64 X server (set to 1024x768 resolution) I'm able to compile a kernel without crashing. I don't know if Windows will run on it, because it's a dedicated Linux machine. Before I installed Potato, I had Corel Linux (Slink) installed. Although I was using KDE, it crashed just as often - usually under the same conditions, but I thought it was KDE. Let me know if there is other information I should provide. If it's in the logs, which logs should I look in? I know Linux isn't supposed to crash this often, but from people's reactions, there really is something wrong here... John >what kinda box ? i've never had this happen..never had netscape take >down a machine..ever. possible the machine is running out of memory ?? >how much ram/swap u got ? > >nate > >John Reinke wrote: >> >> Yep, that's what I said. Linux crashes a lot. >> >> It commonly seems to coincide with Netscape crashing, but it almost always >> takes the whole system with it. I can't Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or change to >> another console. Occasionally I can telnet into the box and try to kill X, >> but it never works. I always end up having to hit the reset button, which >> doesn't make me happy. Twice, it has crashed while running dselect from a >> console. >> >> I need to use a "real" web browser, which seems to mainly be Netscape. I >> shouldn't be forced not to use Netscape, just so my box doesn't crash - >> this is Linux after all. I've tried different window managers >> (Enlightenment, Afterstep, Windowmaker...), but that doesn't help. >> >> I've considered compiling the magic key combination into the kernel, but >> it's the crashing or rebooting that I'd like to avoid in the first place. >> >> Other than not using Netscape, or disabling java or javascript (that helps, >> but not totally), what can/should I do to keep from crashing so often? >> Right now, it seems to crash about every other day. >> >> Additionally, I had something else weird happen today. I couldn't log into >> my box from another machine, xdm, or a console, but it was still running >> IPMasq services, etc. I finally had to reset it, since I couldn't get into >> it at all. It would never complete the validating process. The kernel logs >> showed the output like I see sometimes when it crashes and I'm at the >> console - several lines of addresses and numbers. Any suggestions to >> prevent this from happening again would also be helpful. >> >> Thanks, >> John
