[svlug] Firefox/Thunderbird closing

[Jeremy Hunt]

I think Jeff  might be right about the memory issue. Skip, check your  
logs ( I think it's in /var/log/messages on Fedora) to see if there's  
anything about OOM killing any processes.

-Jeremy


On Jan 20, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Jeff Frost wrote:

> 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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