[Sussex] SuSE 9.3 - a little "flakey" perhaps ???

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:00:11PM +0100, John D. wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> In my continuing search for the "perfect" distro (IMO of course), I'm 
> pretty happy with this SuSE 9.3 that I got from Dave C.
> 
> Sometimes, for reasons that I don't understand, when I try to open an 
> oft' used app, it gives all indications that it's starting, but will 
> then just stop i.e. it doesn't crash or at least give any indications of 
> problems, the rotating hourglas just disappears.
> 
> This has happened mostly with Firefox and Amarok (occassionally Opera 
> and a few other apps). The only thing that they have in common is that I 
> have them installed as far as I can see..
> 
> So where should I start looking to see if this is an issue that I could 
> prevent/sort out/correct etc ???

this depends on your display manager, but the X default log file is
~/.xsession-errors

KDE probably uses something else - to find out this might help:
    cd $HOME
    ls -alt | head
should reveal recently modified files in your home directory - that's
where I'd expect to find them

Hope this helps

-- 
Karl E. Jørgensen
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