Apps on Kubuntu keep crashing

[Michael Butash]

Check what java you're using (java -version), might try a sun/oracle 
version if not using one already.  Also check what devices you have, and 
what dmesg says. That sounds like hardware is flaky, and I've had that 
with various usb/pci devices over the years.  Video drivers too.

Pay attention to what apps are doing at the moment when things crash, 
like invoking video or sound.  I use 13.10 kubuntu at work, and it's 
mostly ok to use, if not for certain annoyances as well around active 
directory integration, but not crashing.

I did once with a plantronics savi headset that invoked itself as a usb 
sound device, but also as a hid device spewing something xorg didn't 
like, took a xorg.d/.conf to ignore the events and device to keep the 
desktop from freezing when anything hit the sound device.  Sounds like 
yours with skype perhaps (look at pulseaudio logs for this), or probing 
a video camera when they init presence of devices.  Otherwise sounds 
like your java might suck, or the ver of office.

-mb


On 03/21/2014 05:11 PM, keith smith wrote:
>
>
> I switched over to Linux on my workstation.  It is a Dell i5 w/8GB 
> RAM.  I installed 64bit Kubuntu.
>
> This week is the first week I have used this box exclusively.  Some 
> adjustments taking I was previousy on Win7.
>
> Interestingly enough I find Kubuntu to be less stable than Win7 and 
> probably less stable than Win95.
>
> Skype crashes or freezes and even when I kill the process I have to 
> reboot to get Skype to launch and work.
>
> Libre Office crashes often as well.
>
> Last night I did an upgrade which I was hoping would help, however 
> Libre Office has crashed 2 times today and I have had to go through 
> the recovery process.  Skype just froze..... again
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this level of issues?
>
> I'm excited to be running Linux.  I like Linux much better today than 
> in 2000 when I went M$ free for 8 months.  However I am a LAMP dev and 
> I need what works.  I need to spend my time programming, not grooming 
> an O/S so it works properly.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Keith
>
>
>
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