AM_SOS
June 9th, 2010, 08:32 PM
hi all,
this is about my ubuntu 9.10 finally becoming unstable enough for even force quit to stop working.
well i use Ubuntu for everyday usage and have never had the OS freezing on me since the last 2 years or so. on the few occasions that there were problems, force quit was able to deal with the issue quite effectively.
however, this recent OS freeze happened when i was using firefox with transmission seeding in the background. ok, let me admit at the outset i had something like 6 - 8 tabs opened in 4 different firefox browser windows.
so all of a sudden the system just froze and it was so bad that i couldn't even use force quit as the entire panel had also frozen.
eventually i was able to log out using alt + F4 and restarting. however, although firefox started ok when i booted back in, the system restarted on its own within a few minutes and without any warning !
which leads me to the query - is there any other way in which one can use the otherwise effective force quit application ? i mean how to use it if the panel itself freezes ?
second, does this OS crash after more than 6 months of stable use indicate something about the general system health ? or is just one of those occasional problems one need not worry about ?
looking out for some useful tips on these topics !
thanks !
this is about my ubuntu 9.10 finally becoming unstable enough for even force quit to stop working.
well i use Ubuntu for everyday usage and have never had the OS freezing on me since the last 2 years or so. on the few occasions that there were problems, force quit was able to deal with the issue quite effectively.
however, this recent OS freeze happened when i was using firefox with transmission seeding in the background. ok, let me admit at the outset i had something like 6 - 8 tabs opened in 4 different firefox browser windows.
so all of a sudden the system just froze and it was so bad that i couldn't even use force quit as the entire panel had also frozen.
eventually i was able to log out using alt + F4 and restarting. however, although firefox started ok when i booted back in, the system restarted on its own within a few minutes and without any warning !
which leads me to the query - is there any other way in which one can use the otherwise effective force quit application ? i mean how to use it if the panel itself freezes ?
second, does this OS crash after more than 6 months of stable use indicate something about the general system health ? or is just one of those occasional problems one need not worry about ?
looking out for some useful tips on these topics !
thanks !