[svlug] Firefox/Thunderbird closing

[Skip Evans]

Hey,

Nothing in the /var/log/messages file.

I'm going to start restart them both from shells 
and see what that outputs when they close again.

Will keep you posted.

Skip

Jeremy Hunt wrote:
> 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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