On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 03:45:19PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
Ten years ago I was told that one of the strengths of Linux was that
if an
application went down it didn't take other processes with it. Sadly this no
longer seems to be true.
Today I had used GIMP to make a scan of 200MB. When I tried to save it it
started, but then went into Disk Sleep. XSane and, believe it or not, Libre
Office Calc became zombies, responding to nothing that I could find in System
Monitor. Eventually, remember previous episodes, I asked for a system
restart. The shutdown began, then hung, leaving me with no option but to
power down.
remember to check /var/log/messages and watch dmesg when you hit strange problems
like that, it is certainly unexpected that a 200 MB scan would nuke your system.
It might be a flaky USB drive rthat got into way or something like that.
Richard
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