New crash symptoms

Question

My system hung again this morning - I was typing into a word document. The window broke up around where I was typing and the cursor disappeared. Completely unresponsive.
So I tried using ssh from another machine to see if I could get an idea of what was going on - since it wasn't a kernel panic. I managed to login. It seemed extremely slow, though. Then, when I tried to execute 'su', I got this message:
-bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
That suggests a machine completely overloaded.
I tried again about five minutes later. I managed to login as root. Next:
sh-3.2# Write failed: Host is down
So it looks as if there has now been a panic.
I'll reboot and post the panic details here in a few minutes. I'd be interested in any suggestions though...

Answer 1

You can also check for connection problems.
Check the connection settings.
*Tools > Options > Advanced : Network : Connection > Settings
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Options+window+-+Advanced+panel
If you do not need to use a proxy to connect to internet then try to select "No Proxy" if the "Use the system proxy settings" setting or one of the others doesn't work properly.
See "Firefox connection settings":
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Firefox+cannot+load+websites+but+other+programs+can
Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.<br />
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.<br />
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.<br /><br />
*http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
*http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
*http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Microsoft Safety Scanner
*http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
*http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
*http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/solutions?qid=208280684
See also:
*"Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked