Re: troubles with KDE(?)

From: Marko Nurmenniemi (no.way_at_kolumbus.fi)
Date: 03/16/04

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    Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:49:13 +0200
    
    

    Sonny Ha wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I've got my Linux box crashed two times today. The first time, I was out
    > of my room and didn't know what happened, but when I came back, there was
    > no more response from the machine, except the mouse still moving. The
    > second time, it happened right in front of me. What happened was I decided
    > to kill a Mozilla Firefox window because it was stalling while loading a
    > webpage (due to the fact that my broadband Internet connection was
    > disconnected). Right after that, I tried to re-open Mozilla Firefox and
    > things just got frozen like what I used to get in Windows. After waiting
    > for a while with no luck, I had to press reset...
    >
    > How could this happen? I'm still not a Linux expert and can't figure out
    > what's wrong. BTW, I'm running KDE 3.1-10 in Red Hat Linux 9.0 with the
    > kernel version 2.4.20-8, and the version of Mozilla Firefox is 0.8. Please
    > help!
    >
    > Sonny

    How did you kill the application?

    There might have been a process alive or stuck that seemed to freeze the
    X (windows server in your machine).

    I hope you understand that pressing reset is the last resort?
    Do you know how to use the text mode in other consoles?
    "ctrl-alt-F1" -F2 etc.

    -M


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