System freeze (Nvidia / Flash)

[Thomas F. Duellmann]

Thanks for you fast response!

Unfortunately even that didn't work. 
I tried nearly all key combinations with Strg + Alt but nothing
happened.
After a (quite long) while the screen turned black and the message
"Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done." appeared.
After several minutes of waiting I did a hard reset.

While being frozen the system responded to ping requests from another
pc. So the system itself seemed to run properly. Something seems to
'mess up' the X-Server or anything else UI-related.
Can anybody give me a hint how to investigate the source of this problem
or would you recommend to just do a fresh install?

Thomas D

> Cannot help with the lock-ups but instead of doing a hard reset try
> holding down CTRL+ALT and pressing BACKSPACE 2 times. This will close
> down your window manager (the X system actually) and you will be able
to
> logon but without the hard reset.
> 
> BC