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

[Clive at Rational]

> 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.

Memtest86 worked a treat and showed up the problem
immediately.

Looks like it was bad memory - or badly seated memory.

Thanks

Clive