On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 17:35 -0500, Winston S. Percybrooks wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I bought a new HD for my laptop, so I decided to make a clean > installation of FC3 on it for replacing the FC2 installation on my old > HD. Everything is working good, except for a "little" but annoying > problem: When a I restart my laptop and open a session with my normal > user, several applications (most notably OpenOffice, the game Celestia > and sometimes Firefox) refuse to run, they terminates with a "segment > violation" message. I found that if I close the session and just open > another one everything is OK. I messed up with the services, kernel > modules, init files, etc, and nothing seems to solve the problem. Please > has somebody any clue about what could be the problem? I hope you could > help me, I'm just getting tired of opening session twice. > There have been many improvements in the way fedora works with laptops in recent months. Since this is a new install, have you considered trying FC4 to take advantage of the newer and fixed features? Also, you have not mentioned the hardware specifications -- memory, video, etc. That may have an effect. > Regards, > > Winston >
