Have you inspected /var/log/system.log afterward? I'd look particularly for disk errors.
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 06:10:32PM -0600, steve harley wrote: >> on 2013-09-04 17:48 Larry Colen wrote >> >It's a weird crash because the cursor is still active, but less and less >> >functionality is available. It'll answer pings, but I can't ssh in. >> >> first thing i'd do is check the logs; not sure what "less and less >> functionality" you mean, but it sounds like more of an OS issue than >> a hardware issue; not that it should stop you from getting a new >> machine ;?> > > I'd be trying to do something in chrome, then I would just get a spinnyball. > But the cursor would still work, and I'd be able to click on another > window, but then, I'd no longer be able to click on another window, > or do anything in that window, and I'd try to run a program in the dock, > and it would freeze up in the middle of popping the little pictures up, > and eventually the only thing that the computer would do is move the > cursor around the screen. > > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
