Re: [Sheflug] Crashing software

[John Southern <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 07 January 2007 21:56, Alex Hudson wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 20:33 +0000, david wrote:
> > The main offender is open
> > office, which crashes most times I use it. It rescues itself and crashes
> > without warning. I'm using it only for simple 1 page letters and tiny
> > spreadsheets. The second worst offender is firefox which will crash a
> > few times a day, again without warning and with no obvious trigger.
> > Sometimes the X server goes down (perhaps a couple of times a week) and
> > I'm left at a login page, and occasionally the system reboots
> > althogether. RealPlayer also crashes once or twice a day. The system's
> > being updated as often as necessary via the package manager. Everything
> > else seems OK, and I'm logged on as a normal user, except for doing
> > things needing root privileges.
>
> That honestly doesn't really sound like a software issue. Check that you
> don't have accessibility support turned on (unless you need it, in which
> case, d'oh!) - I found that can make things instable.
>
> But otherwise, it sounds more like you have dodgy RAM or some other
> hardware problem to me :(
>
> I know you've tested with memtest86, but that doesn't catch all possible
> RAM errors (though it is pretty good), and it could be something else.

I was unsure of OOo occasionally crashing, so I took the advice of someone on 
one of the Ubuntu mailing lists and changed the undo steps.
I cannot remember what the default setting is anymore, but under 
Tools/Options/OpenOffice.org/Memory I have the Undo Steps set as 20.
I have a feeling this was originally 50 or so, but this has cut down OOo 
crashes.

Have you run dmesg after a crash?

Regards
John

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