something froze

NiksaVel · Post by **NiksaVel** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:22 pm

Hey guys,

this happened to me twice now... seems like something froze inside mint and I don't know what to do... everything works okay, exept shut down button and terminal (at least that's what I noticed)...

I want to shut down but it just wont go away

I've tried the quit button in mintMenu, regular menu and clicking my hardware power button, neither produced any result... than I tried to shut it down through cli, but terminal wont load either... other programs work.

result is the secont hardware reset so far in the last few weeks since I'm a mint user.

scorp123 · Post by **scorp123** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:40 pm

Are you running Beryl or some other 3D candy stuff? I have seen the behaviour you describe on my system when the graphics card gets too hot ...

NiksaVel · Post by **NiksaVel** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:57 pm

no no... just regular install... I find beryl to be too much trouble...

and no it's not overheating... I set this comp together

and it also has hardware temp monitoring on frontpanel...

it seems to be happen when I click the quit button inside a minute or so from returning from suspend state...

NiksaVel · Post by **NiksaVel** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:32 pm

okay... here's a real brain puzzler...

it happened again a couple of times... but this last time I didn't restart anything and left mint to just remain turned on... now and than I would surf the web looking for references as I was studying...

than out of the blue after some 15-30 minutes a shut down screen popped up... I was like... xxx?? Clicked cancel and it got right back three times... than I recalled that I tried to click the "Quit" button exactly four times...

so something was holding it back for almost half an hour...

NiksaVel · Post by **NiksaVel** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:19 pm

Just realised that Open Office is also one of the programs (the entire suite) that fails to start when I am in this partly functional state...