From:=20
Michael Kline
To: PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.pho=
enix.az.us=20
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, =
2001 9:33=20
PM
Subject: Newbie needs =
Help
Please bear with me, I am not a IT=20
Professional. I have just purchased Mandrake 8.0 and have =
installed on=20
a new clean drive. I am running a AMD processor and had 256meg of =
RAM. =20
The installation went smoothly with no problems using the expert =
mode. =20
The problems began when i rebooted the first time. X-windows started =
but I=20
am not sure that it started correctly. The screen flashed a few =
times, came=20
up with a grey dotted screen, then a blue screen, with an arrow =
pointer.=20
Then i keep getting error messages susch as: application=20
"keyboard-properties" (process 1899) has crashed due to a fatal =
error.=20
(Segmentation Fault)
What is a segmentation fault? Each =
time I=20
startx the results are different. This last time I had no error =
messages,=20
when Gnome started. When starting KDE desktop I get nothing =
but =20
error messages saying that certain parts of the application have =
crashed and=20
have sent out a
signal 11. I have been =
reading and=20
reading all the books and internet sites on Linux--so much =
information i=20
don't know where to start to put it all together. =
I know that i =
installed the=20
packages that i wanted during the install, such as game station and=20
staroffice52, but how do I go about getting them to run--I can't =
even find=20
them. what am i doing wrong. probly something simple. but =
I don't=20
know where to start. please help if possible so I don't have =
to make=20
Linux shelfware and put in Windows. Does anyone know where the =
Gnome=20
application crash page can be found? I would like to see how a =
properly=20
configured Linux machine works. frustrated but not giving=20
up!!