> Abiword, on the other hand, has unceremoniously crashed on me at > least once. It simply disappeared from the screen as I was attempting to > do something (don't recall exactly what: I know I had 2 documents open at > the time, both of which vanished from the screen).
As an aside, I was running a Java app on my SurvServer a couple of weeks back, and it would run for a while and then at some point you'd do something and it'd just disappear from the X display without so much as a 'Segmentation fault, core dumped'. (Rather, without even a Java exception and stack trace...) After a while I suddenly realised I hadn't told my system which swap partition to use (had to rebuild the system on an existing disk a week or so earlier), so it was running out of memory and being killed by the kernel. Looking in /var/log/syslog revealed a whole heap of entries such as this: Jan 20 21:20:23 emeritus kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 13727 (java). I hadn't seen this happen before, so if you aren't getting any helpful (or not, as the case may be -- Bus Error, how rare!) error messages you might want to check how much memory you have available, or look through syslog for any such messages. Regards, Ben A L Jemmett. (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/) To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
