[Sderby] suse 8.2 crashing

[L Wright]

Thanks for the advice Paul. I had already re-installed in case the original 
was bad. I have dowloaded the updates (although I couldn't see one for 
athlon). The situation now is that I can use Konquerer and can open Yast2. 
If I try to open OpenOffice I get a window for ooop wrapper then the system 
hangs. If I try to update OpenOffice the system hangs. This is the case 
with other software such as Gimp. Shell windows also crash the machine as 
does trying to log off. Is there a way I can systematically troubleshoot 
what is going on such as system logs/ calls etc?
Leigh