Your symptoms suggest some sort of hardware problem to me.  I would
test memory and at least the swap partition of the disk.

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Niels Walet
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 2:13 AM
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Subject: openoffice (i386) on x86_64


I have REAL problems with openoffice on my (dual) amd64 box (SL 4.2).
It seems that openoffice can be made to generate kernel oopses without an
y
problem at all :-(, something that I think is rather surprising. Have had

such issues for a while, also on SL 3.x, and on a variery of stock SMP ke
rnels.
Does anyone know whether there is any protection from such problems?
I can live with the openoffice crashes (which also occur!), but the kerne
l
oopses are just too much.
Niels