ubuntu jaunty seized up

[Ioannis Vranos]

prad wrote:
> i've recently installed jaunty on a compaq presario sr1920nx. i only
> have 512M of ram, but it is still running quite acceptably - faster
> than it did with debian 5.0 which surprised me.
> 
> last night the entire system froze - can't move mouse, no response from
> keyboard ... nothing. so i had to off-on the machine. it froze during
> an install of gnome-office and i had claws-mail, firefox and emacs
> running at the time.
> 
> is there anyway to find out what went wrong?
> are there log error files that can tell me what happened?
> 
> i am assuming the problem has to do with not having more memory, but i
> don't know if that is correct.


How much swap do you have?


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