I just recently had two lockups. (Un)Fortunately neither one was reproducible. Both involved tables: I was creating a calendar.
1. Actually a runaway memory leak. When there was no memory or swap left the kernel killed the culprit: PageStream. What I had done was create a new document and setup the table (8 columns by 5 rows) and sized it to the page. The top row didn't need to be as large as the others, so I knocked it down to 16 points, IIRC. PgS either quit responding after doing that, or when I tried to resize the table.
2. Same document, just much farther along. One page for each month (12) and on page 6. I was putting in moon phases (using a font for that purpose). The table had been duplicated to every page and I was just selecting the moon phase character and typing the correct one. This time it somehow got after the moon phase character and put in the character in the normal text font. I hit ctrl-z to undo it and PgS quit responding. Eventually had to kill the process.
I suspect in the second case that PgS had managed to do something it shouldn't and hence the undo tried to undo something it couldn't. I can't get either one to replicate.
Tim Doty
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