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From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
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On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 08:50:13AM -0400, Elliot Dierksen wrote:
> 
> I have also had some issues with mozilla locking up and it could not
> be killed. When I exited from X, the system would lock as described earlier.

I get this on a UP system.  kill -9 works, though.
As for system lockups, either thermal (see if xmbmon works for you) or
power problems are certainly possible.  SMP uses more power and produces
more heat than the same system running UP.

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