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For the last week I have been facing wired thing, my system would just crash out of nothing, I haven't installed any software neither a hardware, today I was browsing the net and after downloading divx codec my system just crashed and I had to press the little button in order to restart.

1. What can I do to fix this problem?
2. Is there any command in order to see which application is not responding and end it, such as Ctrl + ALT + Del for windows.

if you can... get into a terminal window or console

type: top and look at the process which is eating your cpu (if it is cpu related) and kill it afterwards

This is what I have, when the crash happens I cant get to my Terminal Program too.

Code:

top - 15:24:48 up 5 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.13, 0.17, 0.09

Tasks:  59 total,  2 running,  57 sleeping,  0 stopped,  0 zombie

Cpu(s):  66.7% user,  33.3% system,  0.0% nice,  0.0% idle

Mem:    126300k total,  121836k used,    4464k free,    5336k buffers

Swap:  1004020k total,        0k used,  1004020k free,    53984k cached



  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

 2474 root      14  0  1044 1044  824 R 99.9  0.8  0:00.14 top

    1 root      8  0  228  228  200 S  0.0  0.2  0:04.10 init

    2 root      9  0    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.03 keventd

    3 root      19  19    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 ksoftirqd_CPU0

    4 root      9  0    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.05 kswapd

    5 root      9  0    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 bdflush

    6 root      9  0    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 kupdated

  10 root      -1 -20    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 mdrecoveryd

  11 root      9  0    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 kjournald

  42 root      9  0    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 kjournald

  43 root      9  0    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.01 kjournald

  44 root      9  0    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 kjournald

  66 root      9  0  596  596  516 S  0.0  0.5  0:00.06 syslogd

  69 root      9  0  448  448  396 S  0.0  0.4  0:00.02 klogd

  129 root      9  0  304  304  264 S  0.0  0.2  0:00.00 udevd

  203 root      9  0  520  520  460 S  0.0  0.4  0:00.00 dhcpcd

  252 root      9  0    0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.00 khubd

 2255 root      9  0  512  512  460 S  0.0  0.4  0:00.00 inetd

 2259 root      9  0  1516 1516 1260 S  0.0  1.2  0:00.17 sshd

Re: System Crashes

Quote:

Originally posted by amer_58
For the last week I have been facing wired thing, my system would just crash out of nothing, I haven't installed any software neither a hardware, today I was browsing the net and after downloading divx codec my system just crashed and I had to press the little button in order to restart.

1. What can I do to fix this problem?
2. Is there any command in order to see which application is not responding and end it, such as Ctrl + ALT + Del for windows.

Ctrl + ALT + Del will force a reboot. This is better than hitting the BRS ("Big Red Switch" -- a reference to the large paddle shaped switch on the original IBM PC.)

This is less drastic: Get into a terminal window and type "xkill". Your cursor will change shape. Put the cursor into the hung window and click.

Thanks wpn146 as I have said when my system crashes I cant even move the mouse so I wont be able to access my terminal, however the problem seems to be little General but even my self I don't know what is causing it, there is enough ram so the problem could be a hardware issue....

Thanks to all.

I have just found the problem, its all from firefox I have tried reinstalling it but it wont work, However I am using Konqueror and its running perfect.

Thanks guys.