Thus steve szmidt hast written on Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:00:05PM -0500, and, according to prophecy, it shall come to pass that:
> > Whenever I run OpenOffice writer on my setup, it hangs X if I click on a
> > menu and I have to reboot. This makes "Save As" difficult.
> If that is the only thing that locks up your computer then uninstall it and
> then reinstall. If the problem persists I would reevaluate what I'm running
> to see if it's an out of date distro, or something exotic. Also check drive
> space, force a partition check, and look through /var/log/messages for hints.
>
> OO works on pretty much everything.
Ah, yes...ummm....exotic...
I've got about a year old Debian installation running gdm. When I login to that, I've got my session configured to use twm as my desktop manager, partly because of the clean/small look, and partly because I've been using it for 12 years.
I don't think it's a diskspace issue. I have been filling /home up a few times lately, but I've got 760 MB free right now, at least some of that was freed up when FireFox restarted, so there must have been a couple hundred free when it went down.
When I first click on a menu, it highlights, but noghting else happens. the mouse cursor still moves, but no clicks or text entry register. At that point I SSH in and start killing processes, then kill -9ing them. The screen stays the same, and I can still signal the processes, but I thinnk they've been removed from the "ps -ef" list.
I've had this happen before on a previous debian install when trying to use certain programs. I think games that access graphics directly.
I may try reinstalling OO, but don't bother suggesting I use something other than twm.
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