[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
So, with that in mind, if I cleared the contents of the 
~/.xsession-errors (which currently has some stuff in it, but what it 
is, I haven't worked out yet), then when this happens again, look at the 
file to see what it says. Is that likely to be appropriate or is it a 
dumb thing to do (and will cause problems)?

Then, use the ls -alt | head command to see what else has been modified 
at the same time (when I looked at the output of that command I couldn't 
see anything that seemed to refer to KDE, other than possibly a file 
called . (as in dot with nothing else)??

regards

John D.