The Linux Gamers' How-To

6. When Bad Things Happen To Good People

Of course we can't cover every Bad Thing that happens, but I'll outline some items of common sense.

There are two types of bad things: random and repeatable. It's very difficult to diagnose or fix random problems that you don't have any control over when they happen or not. However, if the problem is repeatable "it happens when I press the left arrow key twice", then you're in business.

6.1. RTFM!
6.2. Look For Updates and Patches
6.3. Newsgroups
6.4. Google Group Search
6.5. Debugging: call traces and core files
6.6. Saved Games
6.7. What to do when a file or library isn't being found (better living through strace)
6.8. Hosed consoles
6.9. Locked System

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