At 16:38 19/11/01 +0000, Mike wrote: <snip much computer woes> >happening I stoped sendmail from starting on boot. Then I rebooted and >started KDE and tried to bring up my ISDN link (ippp0) by using the KDE >Applet (KisdnDock), which promptly crashed. Then KDE started to go crazy, >windows where drawn incomplete and some app's including the Kterminal became >unavailable. I thought thatthis may be due to the upgrade so reinstalled the >system from scratch. All worked for about a day and then the same problem >occured again - sendmail froze on boot and then KDE misbehaved in various >ways making it unusable.
While the VM handling in 2.4 kernels is reported as dodgy, I think I'd want to do some serious thrash testing on the physical memory and fsck all the partitions, including swap space on this box. HTH Colin -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
