[svlug] Firefox/Thunderbird closing

[Jeff Frost]

It might be a ulimit problem as those two apps are notorious for using lots of 
RAM.  Are you starting them from a terminal or starting them via an icon in 
the gnome/kde menu?  If you start it from a terminal and leave that terminal 
open till it crashes, you'll likely get some output on the terminal as to why.

What's the output of 'ulimit -a'?

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Skip Evans wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I have two Debian workstations running a 2.6
> kernel and on both them Firefox and Thunderbird
> will just close at seemingly random times.
>
> Thunderbird began doing it first one one of them
> and I tried reinstalling it, but that didn't fix
> it, and now both applications are doing it on
> quite frequently.
>
> How do I begin to track this down or repair it?
> I'm not sure where to start.
>
> Versions are:
> Thunderbird: 1.0.2
> Firefox: 1.0.4
>
> Both were installed through Debian's apt-get
> install command.
>

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