On Sunday 10 Jun 2012 11:59:23 Sean Gibbins wrote: > Pure guesswork Terry, but my money is on Skype being the culprit based > on nothing more than intuition and a vague notion that I recall reading > it was a resource hog years ago.
Well it did kick off just as my daughter's login notification came up. But what could it have been doing for all that time? > Not much too offer by way of solutions, other than perhaps to see if it > is possible to ssh in from another machine and get to a terminal that way? I'm no expert, but is that likely to have worked since the machine wasn't responding to keyboard input? (This should have the highest priority AFAIK). I wondered about going through the Magic SysRq sequence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key), but decided that this would undoubtedly kill the errant process before I could find out what it was. In the event, it ended before I could get control. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-06-12 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
