How best to debug a crash?

[Jamon Camisso]

jim ruxton wrote:
>>> The commonest (but not the only) cause of mystery crashes I've
>>> found has been bad memory.
>> The most common causes of mystery crashes I have found to be in this 
>> order:
>>
>> 1. Flash on any browser - it's only a matter of time before I hit a 
>> Flash infested site that will cause the disk access light to stay on 
>> constantly and no keyboard, mouse, or ssh responsiveness.
>>
>> 2. Firefox - same as Flash story above.
> Yes I am usually running Firefox when a crash happens along with
> whatever else I may be doing at the time.
>> 3. X,
>>
>> 4. Running Fedora Core :)
>>
>> Seriously, I had more crashes on the laptop on which I'm typing this 
>> in the six weeks I ran FC5 than I did in the few years prior. I 
>> haven't had a single crash since I dumped FC5 and installed Suse 10.1 
>> on this machine so I know it wasn't a hardware problem.
> I'm tempted to try another distribution however I really like the
> packages created for Fedora from
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ 
> 
> Maybe I should just always close Firefox when I'm not using it and see
> if I have less crashes.

I haven't used it too much, but FC6 is quite nice compared to 5 IMO.
Completely subjective, it could just be the fantastic artwork. But
package management with yum or yumex *seems* better than in FC5. I hear
the upgrade through yum from 5 to 6 can be a pain though...
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