Opening terminal kicks me off desktop

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Post by Husse »

128 MB RAM
How the .... did you manage to install?
I think the answer is there - there is not enough memory to handle an open terminal
Not that it takes much (about 5 MB) but you are way below the normal limit!
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And maybe it's defective RAM too? Even if there is not enough RAM it shouldn't kick you out of your desktop session. I too have a very low-spec laptop (Sony VAIO C1 VFK with a Transmeta Crusoe CPU @600 MHz + 192 MB RAM) and although everything is super-duper *SLOW* and takes ages to load my desktop doesn't die all of a sudden ...
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Nelson wrote: I had a 256K linux swap partition .
256K? You surely mean 256 MB. Installing Linux on a system with only a 256K swap partition would be an interesting 'stunt' I'd really like to witness :D

It's strange that GoogleEarth which is really resource hungry works tip top but the Terminal doesn't. What happens if you open a different terminal? e.g. xterm ... it's a really really small app and I wonder if this one would load?
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