On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 03:45:19PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > Ten years ago I was told that one of the strengths of Linux was that if an > application went down it didn't take other processes with it. Sadly this no > longer seems to be true. > > Today I had used GIMP to make a scan of 200MB. When I tried to save it it > started, but then went into Disk Sleep. XSane and, believe it or not, Libre > Office Calc became zombies, responding to nothing that I could find in System > Monitor. Eventually, remember previous episodes, I asked for a system > restart. The shutdown began, then hung, leaving me with no option but to > power down. remember to check /var/log/messages and watch dmesg when you hit strange problems like that, it is certainly unexpected that a 200 MB scan would nuke your system. It might be a flaky USB drive rthat got into way or something like that. Richard --- Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers
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