bizarre issues, need help finding the source.

[Jordan Peacock]

This is on Dapper Drake, as of June 18th 2006's update.

Crashes occurred when multiple programs were opened:
OpenOffice (writer)
Firefox (multiple tabs, including myspace)
Thunderbird
Nautilus

The entire screen froze, with even the system monitor applets frozen and absolutely no key combination changing anything; ctl-alt-backspace, clt-alt-del, ctl-alt-f1, etc. Nothing.

This happened twice this afternoon alone. I cold rebooted and all was well until the next time.

I'm at a loss as to how to replicate it; my wife has used this programs together for weeks, and they're working right now, but the trust's gone a little bit. How do I figure out which program is causing the issues?

Thank you

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

Hi, thanks for your report.
Are you still experiancing these issues? if not it would be nice to mark this bug as closed.
If yes, post again and we can try and work it out.

[Jordan Peacock (hewhocutsdown)]

It's only happened a few times; it's been a couple days without it
happening. What should I do if it does happen again?

                        -jordan

On 6/22/06, KarlGoetz <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi, thanks for your report.
> Are you still experiancing these issues? if not it would be nice to mark this bug as closed.
> If yes, post again and we can try and work it out.
>
> --
> bizarre issues, need help finding the source.
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/50287
>

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

If it happens again comment on this bug again, and we can start looking at ways to try and fix it.

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

How much memory and swap do you have?

[Jordan Peacock (hewhocutsdown)]

512/512. It's an older Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop.

I'm thinking it may just be hardware primarily, as it's slowly giving
out; we've had to replace a few components already and it's been
acting erratic. I'm running the exact same version of everything on my
desktop and haven't experienced any troubles of the sort.

                    -jordan

On 7/2/06, Dennis Kaarsemaker <email address hidden> wrote:
> How much memory and swap do you have?
>
> --
> bizarre issues, need help finding the source.
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/50287
>

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Try memtest86 :)

[Andrew Mitchell (ajmitch)]

I'll reject this bug now, as you said it seemed to be hardware issues.