Hello. I've recently been having a problem with hard system lockups when using OpenOffice 1.1. This is a Debian Sid system, running the 2.4.24 kernel. It happens intermittently when I use the down arrow to scroll in the document. It happened for the second time in about a week today. I try to scroll down by hitting the arrow at the bottom of the scrollbar and the system just freezes. The mouse cursor will not move, and no keyboard input seems to get through (cannot kill X with ctrl-alt-bkspc, cannot reboot with ctrl-alt-del, cannot cycle desktops with alt-Fx). Last time this happened I tried telentting in from another machine on my network but could not (connection attempt timed out). I tried pinging, but got "56 data bytes sent" and then nothing. ctrl-c showed 100% packet loss. So, I figured the only way to get the computer useable again was a hard reset (power button off/on), which I did. I looked through /var/log/messages on reboot but didn't see anything that seemed pertinent. Any ideas on how I might go about diagnosing this problem? I should mention that I had many applications open (13?) and a vmware session (in suspend mode) at the time the lockup occurred. There were no processor/memory intensive applications running at the time though. Input appreciated.
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