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Hi all,
My experience with the OpenOffice spell checker is that it freezes OpenOffice for several seconds the first time you check the spelling of a word. This problem is much better in recent versions, and it never froze the whole machine.
When checking a Linux system freeze, first check the disk activity light. A system that is swapping big time can appear to freeze, but the disk will be cranking like there was no tomorrow.
Next I always try accessing the frozen computer from another computer on the network. Frequently, it is only X or an X application that is stuck. If you can log in, try running top to see if anything is running using most of the CPU cycles. Netscape used to do this to me, and killing the runaway process would resolve the problem.
If it is X that is frozen and I can log in to the computer remotely, I kill the X server process. After a few seconds, X comes back up to the login prompt. Of course, any unsaved work is lost as all applications running under that X session are killed along with the X server. You could kill all of the applications that you are running before killing the X server and hope that they save some kind of state that you can recover from. This is useful to avoid hard crashing the computer and risking corruption to the mounted file systems.
Of course, if the computer does not respond over the network, Something bad has happened. Likely, there is a hardware conflict or maybe flaky memory. My experience is that Linux in general and Fedora Core 2 is rock solid and, on good hardware, can run for days, weeks, and months with no trouble. I feel that x.org seems somewhat more likely to freeze then XFree86 was, but not enough to be a major problem.
I hope that this helps
William
Jon Savage wrote: | I've seen that from time to time when running openoffice but have yet | to be able to reliably reproduce the problem. In my case it seems to | have to do with spell checking but can't be sure. | | | On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:33:39 +0800 (SGT), Didier Casse | <didierbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | |>I had FC1 previously and really had no problems with it. Now that I |>upgraded to FC2, it freezes occasionnally: Nothing responds including my |>mouse and Ctrl+Backspace or Ctrl+alt+del command. And I'm forced to press |>the reboot button like Windows! |> |>Did anybody have similar weird behaviours and where to start for the |>troubleshooting? Thanks. |> |>With kind regards, |>Didier. |> |>--- |>Didier F.B Casse | PhD student | Singapore Synchrotron light Source (SSLS) |>Email: didierbe AT sps dot nus dot sg | Web: http://ssls.nus.edu.sg |>GPG Key 1024D/B3C57D01 2004-06-23 |> |>-- |>fedora-list mailing list |>fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx |>To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list |> | | | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
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