Random crashes

[akya]

Since last 2 days, Firefox, Chrome and XBMC are randomly crashing and sometimes even won't start again until a reboot. I checked their logs and found that this was maybe related to graphics driver.

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[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Core was generated by `/usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x00007f8c71184e10 in ?? () from /usr/lib/nvidia-331/libGL.so.1

I am not sure how to proceed next.

[akya]

Things have gotten worse.. random crashes plus now software manager won't start at all.. Corrupt system files? If yes then what should I do? I am guessing this isn't related to just graphics drivers. Maybe mods can move the topic to appropriate location?

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Sep 14 09:21:11 Quady kernel: [   84.174792] mintinstall[2390]: segfault at 6f3efcb495f8 ip 000000000053eac0 sp 00007fffff796a98 error 4 in python2.7[400000+2bd000]
Sep 14 09:23:20 Quady kernel: [  212.671977] mintinstall[2485]: segfault at 6f480f75a128 ip 0000000000516b28 sp 00007fff9e05d3e0 error 4 in python2.7[400000+2bd000]
Sep 14 09:25:01 Quady kernel: [  313.377646] atl1c 0000:03:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Down
Sep 14 09:25:04 Quady kernel: [  316.868490] atl1c 0000:03:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
Sep 14 09:25:04 Quady kernel: [  317.112775] atl1c 0000:03:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Down
Sep 14 09:25:08 Quady kernel: [  320.859201] atl1c 0000:03:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
Sep 14 09:25:21 Quady kernel: [  333.317877] atl1c 0000:03:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Down
Sep 14 09:25:25 Quady kernel: [  338.202342] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Sep 14 09:25:28 Quady kernel: [  340.624858] atl1c 0000:03:00.0: atl1c: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>
Sep 14 09:25:28 Quady kernel: [  340.624874] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
Sep 14 09:35:10 Quady kernel: [  922.410014] mintinstall[3016]: segfault at 6faa41a5c158 ip 0000000000516b28 sp 00007fffce259580 error 4 in python2.7[400000+2bd000]
Sep 14 09:37:29 Quady kernel: [ 1061.480597] perf samples too long (2504 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000

[grungy_me]

Have you run Memtest on this computer for many hours to see if the RAM is ok with no errors?

Did you also check the md5sum of the LinuxMint ISO download, and then check the media integrity when booting up the live image?

Lastly, I got a lot of segmentation fault errors with Linux games in LinuxMint 16 and 17 Cinnamon with my then AMD 5770 with prorietary AMD graphics driver. Changing to XFCE was the solution for me. But others reported KDE as also being a solution.