Crash

[Yannu]

Hi, i installed OpenSuse 12.1 64bits this monday 20.Feb with Gnome. Today when i was just opening a document in pdf and maximizing the window, the system crashed, stopped working, freezed, and nothing worked.
Some weeks ago i had Fedora installed with Gnome, and crashes also happened with different situations. I dont know if its Gnome problem, or my pc

I’m a newbie and i would appreciate some help to try to understand what is causing the crashes.
Does a log file with information exists?

Thank you for the help

[robin_listas]

On 2012-02-25 12:06, Yannu wrote:

> Does a log file with information exists?

Yes, but probably has nothing if the crash was fast. All logs ar under
/var/log/

You could start by checking memory; there is a checker in the installation
disk, boot screen.

A few people are reporting crashes when using the new 3.x kernel, so you
could try installing instead openSUSE 11.4

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

[Yannu]

I did a memory check before the instalation, its was all ok.
I can try openSUSE 11.4 then.

Thank you

[robin_listas]

On 2012-02-25 13:26, Yannu wrote:
>
> I did a memory check before the instalation, its was all ok.
> I can try openSUSE 11.4 then.
>
> Thank you

Wait for more comments, before taking that step.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

[DenverD]

On 02/25/2012 12:06 PM, Yannu wrote:
> i installed OpenSuse 12.1 64bits this monday 20.Feb with Gnome.

-=WELCOME=- new poster, please tell us your experience level in openSUSE
and Linux (used other distros, or ??)

have you run YaST > Online Update since installing your system?

have you booted since running YaST > Online Update?

are you running Gnome2 or Gnome3?

when you tried to open the PDF document was that while in a browser?
(which, and what version?)…

or was the PDF on your hard drive? if it was, what application were you
attempting to open the PDF with? (Acrobat, or some other–which?)

were you able to successfully open and display a PDF in full screen
before today?

tell us about your hardware (computer brand/model, CPU, amount of RAM
and video graphics set, etc)

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[Yannu]

Hi, i had slackware installed some years ago, but ended up not doing much with it, i’m now trying to learn linux.

I ran online updates just after the instalation of openSuse on monday.

Gnome 3.2.1

The pdf file is on my hard drive, i opened it with the pdf viewer that came with openSuse, Evince. I was first time i opened a pdf since the instalation on monday. Although now i’m able to open the pdf without a problem. I had Fedora the latest version installed some weeks ago, and also several craches occured in different situations.

64 bits
CPU - Intel Core i5 CPU 750 2.67GHz x 4
Graphics - ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
4G memory

Thank you

[DenverD]

On 02/26/2012 10:36 AM, Yannu wrote:
> Although now i’m able to open the pdf without a problem.

hmmmm…seems maybe it was a transient problem…let us know if it
comes back–until then, have a lot of fun!!

[another way to say that: I have no idea what might have caused a one
time ‘freeze’ when opening a PDF! next time walk away and come back in
five minutes and see if it is still ‘frozen’–sometimes things ‘fix’
themselves…]

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[Yannu]

Ok, thank you very much for the help