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

[John D.]

Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> 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
Thanks Karl, I'll have a look and see what (if anything) I can find.

regards

John D.