Thanks to everyone who wrote with suggestions re. my problem. At this
point I'm guessing that either the guy who was using the computer for some
Web development at the time was killing it with a misbehaving PHP script
(he said he found he had an infinite while() loop, though I can't see how
that exactly would kill off the whole computer!) or just not enough RAM or
swap (it's only got 16 MB, and 32 MB of swap). That doesn't really satisfy
me, considering the other problems I've had with this particular machine,
but I'll wait and see what other problems may or may not surface in the
future, and maybe add a bit more RAM!
Chris
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