Re: [libreoffice-users] Very unhappy camper

If worse comes to worse, boot with a live CD and copy your VM directory 
for the critical machine to another machine.

Michel-André
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Le 2010-12-28 20:29, Greg Madden a écrit :
> On Tuesday 28 December 2010 02:18:37 pm MR ZenWiz wrote:
> > I just began the process of recovering from attempting to run a .ppt
> > slideshow that crashed my machine.
> >
> > I attempted to run it once and it crashed Impress.  I tried to run it
> > again and it crashed my machine - hard.  I now have a partially
> > unrecoverable VMWare Workstation VM that I critically need to be able
> > to run.
> >
> > I am running:
> >
> > 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:41:37 UTC 2010 x86_64
> > GNU/Linux DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> > DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.10
> > DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
> > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"
> >
> > LibreOffice 3.3.0
> > OOO330m18 (Build:4)
> > tag libreoffice-3.3.0.2
> >
> > Unfortunately the .ppt file is confidential information and I can't
> > submit it for analysis, but this is seriously bad - LO should not
> > crash the host no matter how screwed up one of its (or MSO's) files
> > might be.
>
> i share your thoughts on how robust a system should be.  This sounds like an X
> issue, video card/driver or X-windows. Check your '/var/log/Xorg.0.log' file and
> the output of 'dmesg' for clues.
>
> A couple of thoughts  possibly related to the crash, Ubuntu 10.10  is not the same
> quality as the  LTS release, .  Run a release candidate on top of that, and you
> don't have the robust system you seek.
>
> I run VM's on my Linux host, I use 'nfs' for Linux guest file sharing, and Samba
> for Windows guests. This puts all data on the host, which has backups,  problems
> with the VM don't affect the security of the data. Being the cautious type, I
> have a backup of my Windows guests VM.

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