How much swap space do you have enabled (run the free command in the terminal; it will show you.) ? Hard crashes like you describe I've seen happen from running out of memory; Openoffice would be a prime candidate for chewing through your memory...
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 6:15 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Did this just up and start happening? -s this a new install? > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: huss <[email protected]> > > Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:29:28 > To: Linux Users Group<[email protected]> > Subject: [lug:14739] Re: LInux box freezing... > > > > Can you tell me what is your PC and what distro you use thank you > > On Jul 11, 8:29 am, Kenneth Adam Miller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'll be running linux and all of a sudden it will freeze. I don't know > what > > to do besides just do a hard reboot, hold down the power button until it > > just shuts of immediately. > > I'm liking this in my mind to running openoffice because it hasn't done > this > > once with me not running it. What can i do to break out of it without > losing > > my running applications? Does anyone know of any way to stop it from > > happening? > > > > not even ctrl+alt+f2 works. > > > > > -- Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
