On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 8:11 pm, civileme wrote: > On Tuesday 21 January 2003 10:57 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Once again I am encountering spontaneous re-boots in Star/OpenOffice. It > > feels as though I hit some sort of ceiling, out of some resource. There > > must be some way I can see what's going on? > > > > I know Althlon 900 is not high spec these days, but it's not that bad. > > And with 512 Mb RAM I wouldn't have expected problems. > > > > It is more likely a problem with your hardware and the kernel's > implementation of APIC, which is by no means universal in scope yet. > > Try booting with linux noapic (esc at the boot screen then type in "linux > noapic" without the quotes and enter. > > If that solves the problem, add a "noapic" to the append line of each linux > boot in your boot configuration. > In my dismay I wrongly described it - I should have said sponataneous logouts, not re-boots. However, I am trying your solution at this moment, so we'll see if it helps.
I had Gnome Monitor running just before it went down, and nothing looked untoward then. I'll let you know what happens. Thanks Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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