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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.

-- 
Peace,

Greg

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