[ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

[Matthew Wild]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:48 PM, James Tyrrell
<james.r.tyrrell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

I have seen similar from OpenOffice when using certain GTK themes. To
fix I removed openoffice.org-gtk, which results in an ugly
OpenOffice.org, but a stable computer. I have no idea if this problem
is still there though, I experienced it back with Feisty on my Dad's
laptop.

Matthew