Newbie: Frequent application window failures under Fedora 4 kernel 2.6.12 - more info

[Edward Dekkers]

Clive at Rational wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   My Fedora machine is still very unstable - after I
> applied all the latest maintenance last week 15 August
> 2005 - I'm convinced it's not a coincidence - but I
> can't prove it.
> 
>     I actually found the following messages at the end
> of /var/log/messages - that may give clue to what is
> happening. Usuaully when the machine has a problem -
> the windows hang or do not open or the machine crashes
> back to command line with nothing written to the log.
> I feel the most relevant messages are:
> 
> Aug 21 16:52:27 localhost gconfd (root-2835): SIGHUP
> received, reloading all databases
> Aug 21 16:52:27 localhost gconfd (root-2835): Received
> signal 11, dumping core. Please report a GConf bug.

Signal 11 is usually bad RAM.

Try a memory test.

A full memtest86 will usually tell you. You'll need to run it overnight 
because if you select the full suite it can take 14 hours or so.

Regards,
Ed.
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