topic title: XFCE goes haywire.
Posts: 71
zarg2
Joined: 16 Jul 2013
#1
On my Antix 15 with XFCE the system started throwing errors like"item xx has unexpectedly left the panel" then complete lock up, reboot did not fix. an attempt to install MX15 resulted in the same odd behavior. I wound up installing plain Antix 15 rox-icewm and it's stable now. I'm thinking it may be a hardware issue.
Posts: 2,238
dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#2
zarg2 wrote:On my Antix 15 with XFCE the system started throwing errors like"item xx has unexpectedly left the panel" then complete lock up, reboot did not fix. an attempt to install MX15 resulted in the same odd behavior. I wound up installing plain Antix 15 rox-icewm and it's stable now. I'm thinking it may be a hardware issue.
i would check out the ram. check both the seating in the slots and the memory itself with memtest.
Posts: 71
zarg2
Joined: 16 Jul 2013
#3
will do, thanks
Posts: 71
zarg2
Joined: 16 Jul 2013
#4
Bad memory chip in one of the banks. all good now. I decided to switch back to MX15 and the machine is happily humming along.