Re: [libreoffice-users] Very unhappy camper

People, the ubuntus are inherently inferior versions of linux and have
a tendency to crash often, especially if the gui is gnome. Please take
this into consideration, first look at the environment before the
application.

Kate Draven
CyberPunk X Computers

On 12/28/10, Michel-André <michelandre@micronator.org> wrote:
> If worse comes to worse, boot with a live CD and copy your VM directory
> for the critical machine to another machine.
>
> Michel-André
> ******************
>
> 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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