Sorry if this is off topic, being (i think) more of a hardware issue than a 
software problem. But maybe someone can suggest a good place to discuss older 
PC hardware.

I am trying to rehab an older system, I just installed a fresh copy of wheezy 
using the LXDE boot CD. I am now keep getting segfaults when doing random 
things. The machine has 386megs of ram, and booted up the system is using about 
half of this at most. I was in the process of shutting unneeded services, etc 
to make it leaner when i first noticed the problem. I just barely going on this 
so not much was done, mostly tweaking the appearance of the GUI. I do not think 
I had a chance to do anything wacky enough to cause this though.

This problem is very frustrating, it seems to happen a lot when running the 
console and I hit tab to do file completion. In the gui doing some basic things 
causes it (like adding a couple of apps to the launcher, but running a browser 
like midori doesn't cause a problem. It might be gtk related because I see 
references to gtklibs in a lot of segfaults in the logs.

My main question then is does this sound like a flaky hardware problem? Any 
thoughts on whether it would it be the processor, RAM or the motherboard? 
Thanks.


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