Could be a dodgy video driver. Try dropping to a console as well, by
hitting ctrl+alt+f1 and restarting X windows in a different mode, e.g.
different resolution, depth and see if the problem persists.
Baldwin_James at emc.com wrote:
>Is the machine networked? Try telnetting into it and check it out..
>usual stuff like top, vmstat, etc
>>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul O' Donovan [mailto:paulod at iolfree.ie]
>Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 5:17 PM
>To: cork at linux.ie>Subject: [CLUG] Frequent Crashes.
>>>Can anyone help please,
> I am running mandrake 9.0 on a
>pIII 650 / 128mb ram, I am getting frequent system crashes
>usually when trying to open text files from within staroffice 6.0.
>The system hangs but the mouse pointer still moves but I cannot select any
>icons and need to reboot the machine. Any Idea where I should look to
>sort this out?..
>>thank you
>Paul O' Donovan.
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