[ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

[Thomas Ibbotson]

James Tyrrell wrote:
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> 2008/5/7 Thomas Ibbotson <thomas.ibbotson at gmail.com 
> <mailto:thomas.ibbotson at gmail.com>>:
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>     Hi all,
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>     Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to
>     me in
>     the last couple of days, once on my desktop and now once on my
>     laptop. I
>     think I was trying to watch a flash video in firefox the first time
>     although I'm not sure. The second time it was on trying to play a .ram
>     in totem. It was a hard crash, I couldn't do anything except do a hard
>     reboot, CTRL-Backspace and CTRL-ALT-F1 did not do anything.
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> Hey when you say crashed were you still able to move your mouse? Or 
> was that a no go, I've had a similar problem where the system just 
> locks, no keyboard commands do anything and while I can move the mouse 
> the system needs a hard restart to fix the problem. Usually 
> (suspiciously...) if I have OpenOffice open.
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No, I wasn't able to move my mouse either, it was a complete freeze.