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On 14/07/15 12:48, Adrian Midgley wrote: > Iceweasel glitches intermittently, particularly on moving the edge of > its window. > > Gimp and Bluefish occasionally also. > > Hardware? Software? Specific library, remedy or means of tracking it > more closely? The first two point at glibc - which is almost certainly a software issue or mismatch. Have you added weird repositories to Debian? The others look like virtual memory issues of some sort. I'd be tempted to boot memtest as I'm assuming this is new box, or box you've been sticking the new graphics cards in. See if there is a memory issue. It may be a configurable thing from BIOS or hardware settings, not necessarily a new hardware is required thing. I think 2 of the last 3 of these I saw were "Bios/Firmware does weird stuff that can be switched off", only one of the issues went away with swapping out a specific memory stick. The specific remedy for segfaults caused by software is using a debugger (gdb), but it is a bit like an MRI scan, it'll show you precisely where the problem is without giving you any hints on the best approach to solving it. Who said "sometimes bus error is caused by an error on the bus"? I think it worth ruling out the hardware, especially if it has changed, but the odds it is software are increasingly good with software complexity. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq