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On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:32:30 +0100 "Robin Cornelius" <robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/16/06, Neil Winchurst <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Eventually they stop. But, obviously, it is annoying. Can anyone > > suggest how I stop it please? > > > > > Any idea *what* is crashing? What info does the backtrace tab give you? > > Robin > As promised I looked at the bugs.kde.ord website. There I found a report from someone who was having similar problems. The recommended cure consisted of just two words - remove kat. Kat is a search tool which indexes files based on the contents. It actually consists of two parts, a daemon for indexing files and an interface to manage catalogues and perform searches. Anyway, I did as suggested and uninstalled kat, then closed down and restarted the computer. Now all is fine, no errors showing up and all programs, including Firefox, are working properly. Great. However, I am still a little puzzled. Kat came automatically as part of the original installation when I set up my computer six weeks ago (using Mandriva2006). I have never actually used it so why should it suddenly start causing problems? And secondly, why now? Why did it take six weeks before all this started happening? Strange. Anyway, since all seems to be well now, why worry? Let's just be happy about it and carry on. Computers - don't you just love 'em!!!! Neil Winchurst - The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html