Karen Hanson wrote: > > I just built a system from motherboard up and am having a few problems and > looking for pointers. I used the latest Debian version from Cheap Bytes, > "slink", I think. > > Anyhow, what happens is that Netscape crashes a lot, and Mozilla crashes > too. Sometimes the crash is severe enough to kill the X server, and > sometimes the system hangs completely. > > Of every 10 crashes, 7 are just Netscape or Mozilla, 2 are the X server, and > 1 is a complete system hang. > > I am running the Debian kernal that was on the CDs. When I try to make a > new kernal, I can't get X to start at all. > > I am looking for pointers as to log files that might indicate the problem. > It is possible that I have not set everything up exactly right for the > motherboard and CPU chip. I am using an IWILL XA100P motherboard with an > AMD K6-3 400 CPU, with 256MB RAM. > > Alll of these crashes must leave log entries somewhere, right? Where do I > look? >
I'm by no means an expert but you might try the /var/log directory. hth, kent
