People, the ubuntus are inherently inferior versions of linux and have a tendency to crash often, especially if the gui is gnome. Please take this into consideration, first look at the environment before the application.
Kate Draven CyberPunk X Computers On 12/28/10, Michel-André <[email protected]> wrote: > If worse comes to worse, boot with a live CD and copy your VM directory > for the critical machine to another machine. > > Michel-André > ****************** > > Le 2010-12-28 20:29, Greg Madden a écrit : >> >> >> On Tuesday 28 December 2010 02:18:37 pm MR ZenWiz wrote: >>> I just began the process of recovering from attempting to run a .ppt >>> slideshow that crashed my machine. >>> >>> I attempted to run it once and it crashed Impress. I tried to run it >>> again and it crashed my machine - hard. I now have a partially >>> unrecoverable VMWare Workstation VM that I critically need to be able >>> to run. >>> >>> I am running: >>> >>> 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:41:37 UTC 2010 x86_64 >>> GNU/Linux DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu >>> DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10 >>> DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick >>> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10" >>> >>> LibreOffice 3.3.0 >>> OOO330m18 (Build:4) >>> tag libreoffice-3.3.0.2 >>> >>> Unfortunately the .ppt file is confidential information and I can't >>> submit it for analysis, but this is seriously bad - LO should not >>> crash the host no matter how screwed up one of its (or MSO's) files >>> might be. >> >> i share your thoughts on how robust a system should be. This sounds like >> an X >> issue, video card/driver or X-windows. Check your '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' >> file and >> the output of 'dmesg' for clues. >> >> A couple of thoughts possibly related to the crash, Ubuntu 10.10 is not >> the same >> quality as the LTS release, . Run a release candidate on top of that, >> and you >> don't have the robust system you seek. >> >> I run VM's on my Linux host, I use 'nfs' for Linux guest file sharing, and >> Samba >> for Windows guests. This puts all data on the host, which has backups, >> problems >> with the VM don't affect the security of the data. Being the cautious >> type, I >> have a backup of my Windows guests VM. >> > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
