From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Subject: Re: Gnome, KDE won't Open Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:50:24 +0800 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040814025024.B354E3ECF0@heisspf> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20040813093835.01fe0dc0@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:07:05 MST." <5.1.0.14.1.20040813093835.01fe0dc0@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ray Olszewski Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Thanks Ray! I just solved the problem. ray@comarre.com said: > Might this be a memory (or swap partition) problem? What does "free" report > about memory and swap usage just before you try to start Gnome or KDE? Are > you able to use swap successfully in other ways? The bloke in the computer shop had the System Share Memory Size in the BIOS set to 8. When I now reset it to the original 32 everything is working again fine. I saw him fumbling around the BIOS, however he was so fast that I could not follow. I got the idea after your hint above when I noticed that the swap memory was not really used after having opened in twm via xterm applications like abiword, gnumeric, konqueror, gkrellm simultaneously, then trying to open other applications I would get segmentation fault. After closing abiword, gnumeric, etc they could not be reopened, segmentation fault. Even rebooting would not completely finish and end with segmentation fault. ray@comarre.com said: > Have I correctly identified your mobo as the following? > http://www.baber.com/baber/411/ecs_p6stmt.htm yes ray@comarre.com said: > what do you mean by "I bought an USB adopter"? That should naturally read adapter. It plugs on one end into the USB socket of the mobo and has 2 sockets on the other end, one for kb and one for mouse. Regards - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs