On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:40:19 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
[....]
The only thing worse than a poorly asked question is a cryptic
answer.
OK, first off, I'm the OP.
I suppose I should be flattered at being addressed as if I were
an Alpha Plus Technoid; but I'm not one. I'm just an old twice-retired
bookworm, running Fedora because there's more and better help online for
it than for anything else I've tried (most of the well-known distros),
and because I began back in '98 with RedHat. I can't imagine anything I
have being of interest to an intruder.
All the replies in this thread so far have been way over my head.
The one thing I gather some of you want is the error message from SEL,
verbatim. I don't have it; I presume it's in some log somewhere, but I
have no idea how to find that log.
As for the rest of the comments, however well-meant, I can't tell
what is wanted; but I'll try to go find it if someone can make it clear
to me.
My guess is that Arora had well over a hundred, but well under
two hundred, tabs open when it crashed. SEL then offered me two choices,
both having something to do with Arora trying to access memory somewhere
that SEL thought it had no business accessing.
A point that may or may not be relevant is that the machine I was
using had been running slow, with some of the probably busiest apps (Pan,
several browsers, and Alpine) seeming especially slow.
Pan and Firefox (but iirc not Arora) had actually crashed a time
or two, in one of two ways. Sometimes they just went away, but I could
restart them (and, with one or two of the browsers, eliminate some of the
open tabs before full restoration). Sometimes they produced what I've
called, in another recent thread here, the Diagonal Screen of Death
(DSoD).
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.