On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 10:56 AM 3/17/2004 -0600, James Miller wrote: > >Hello. I've recently been having a problem with hard system lockups when > >using OpenOffice 1.1. This is a Debian Sid system, running the 2.4.24 <snip> > At least for the first pass, you've done everything right (everything I can > think of, anyway). > > It sounds like either a kernel problem (improbable; even Sid kernels are > quite stable) or one of the usual hardware problems (CPU overheating, bad > RAM, bad swap) that present, if you had a STDERR device visible, as a > kernel OOPs ... this guess based on the system not responding to ping (even > a halt'ed system will, often, respond to pings). > > Next step -- since you have remote login capability, open a telnet or ssh > session before trouble starts and run "top". Of, if your screen is large > enough, do this in an xterm that is visible onscreen when OpenOffice is > running. Either way, you should get to see the info "top" reports about the > system right at the point of failure -- CPU utilization, RAM and swap use, > the few highest-CPU-use processes, etc. Also you'll see (a long shot here) > if, just barely possible, an established remote connection remains active > after the crash. > > I'm assuming that you're using the .deb packages for OpenOffice. If you > installed it outside of Debian, please mention that next time. > > Also mention next time if you are using any non-standard kernel modules > (including X-related ones, like X-server-related framebuffers) ... my > comment about kernel stability applies to the actual kernel code, not > add-in modules.
Thanks for your input, Ray. This happens so unpredictably that I'd end up leaving Top open in that telnet session for perhaps a good long time. But I may try that anyway. OpenOffice is a .deb - installed using apt-get install openoffice.org. I think all X stuff is just the standard things that come when you run tasksel and select to load Xwindows. I do run vmware on this machine though, and it needed to create its own networking modules and "virtual router" (I'm a little hazy on how its virtual networking stuff operates). I think those are the only non-standard modules. Sound relevant? James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
