On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Alexandru Mustatea wrote:
> This is my first post on this list, I hope I won't break any
> rule... Also, please excuse my English, I'm not a native English speaker.
> Every time I start lyx, it crashes after displaying the main
> window and just before displaying the graphical logo. I've tried both
> versions 0.12 and 1.1.5fix1, with the same result. The most annoying
> problem is that both of them run fine on other machines. I really need it
> working in order to write a paper in mathematics, so any hint is
> welcome. Below follows the technical data:
> Cyrix 486Dx2, 80 MHz
> 16 Mb Ram (the memory modules are ok, I've even changed them with
> others an still no improvement)
> ALi 1489 (1487?) chipset on the motherboard
> standard RedHat 6.2
> The ext2 and swap partition are ok, I've checked them.
What X display is this ? Can you send me the output of xdpyinfo privately ?
> No other program makes any problem, except for the installation of
> RedHat which crashes 19 times out of 20. Their anaconda drives me mad. 6.0
> install crashes with SIG9 somewhere before entering fdisk, while 6.1 and
> 6.2 installs crash with SIG11 somewhere between calculating the
> dependencies between packages and actually installing them. Probably it's
> a hardware problem, but I can't understand why, under these circumstances,
> I managed to succesfully compile a kernel, which is said to be the best
> hardware test.
This definitely sounds like a hardware problem. And just because you seem to
have made it through a kernel compile, doesn't mean that the hardware is OK -
these things can be weird.
john
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