General :: Ubuntu 9.10 Constant Restarts
May 17, 2010
My dads' hard drive went up a while back. So we got him a new one and installed Ubuntu 9.10 instead of windows. All was going well until About two weeks ago. The system restarts randomly. Not when anyone is doing anything in particular. Sometimes when we are using firefox, sometimes just sitting on the desktop, and never after any certain amount of time.Some times its after five minutes, some times after several hours. It's not a full out crash, the window for shutdown/switch user/restart comes up out of nowhere. When we close the window, it shows back up pretty quickly, but then the computer will just crash. While restarting, half of the time the computer won't make it past the bios screen before restarting again,and will continue the bios restarting cycle until the computer is unplugged. By the way, the system is a dell dimension E310 from 2005 with all of the original hardware minus hard drive inside, so if it is a hardware issue that wouldn't surprise me. Also, just one time after the restart I received the message "fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16" , if that helps at all.
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Nov 18, 2010
is it normal having several security updates week after week in a 10.04 ubuntu lts server distro? Some of them even need a system restart, which I consider truly bad for a web server...
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Oct 6, 2010
I have a text file that gets produced at the end of the script being run.
For this example the text file will produce the following:
Quote:
THE COW
THE DOG
THE CAT
THE HORSE
In the script I am using either echo or printf to print on the screen each line and then it is doing a test and produces a good or bad result.
Another example:
Quote:
THE COW -- IS HOME
THE DOG -- IS HOME
Each whitespace between the -- are 5 spaces. How can I get them to be in-line and formatted when it gets to more words, when THE HORSE arrives.
Example:
Quote:
THE COW -- IS HOME
THE DOG -- IS HOME
THE CAT -- IS HOME
THE HORSE -- IS HOME <-- This has only 3 whitespaces but is still formatted.
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Aug 24, 2010
Am have a little problem with my ubuntu 10.04 which restarts as i do some task for example..as i am copying...playing music..and any operation task.
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Mar 20, 2010
Changes I've made to the config files:
Connecting with PuTTy works fine with my public/private keys. But why does sshd start and then restart twice when booting? I tried looking in the logfiles under /var/log/ for anything with ssh/sshd but nothing shows up.
Ubuntu Server 9.10
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May 10, 2011
I this problem where my laptop hangs up or suddenly restarts. Currently Iam using Fedora 15 but I had this problem when I was using fedora 13. I upgraded to 15 thinking that may be its been resolved in 15.
I have searched for possible solutions. my system software is up-to-date including the kernel which I took from the test repositeries..
I checked /var/log/messages for possible clues but I have not been able to figure it out. Below is the output of /var/log/messages files just before the laptop freezes or restarts.. so far the below output has been consistent with the event...
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May 10 22:44:11 localhost ntpd[1622]: Listening on routing socket on fd #22 for interface updates
May 10 22:44:11 localhost ntpd[1622]: 0.0.0.0 c016 06 restart
May 10 22:44:11 localhost ntpd[1622]: 0.0.0.0 c012 02 freq_set kernel 16.857 PPM
May 10 22:44:18 localhost ntpd[1622]: 0.0.0.0 c61c 0c clock_step +0.160289 s
May 10 22:44:19 localhost ntpd[1622]: 0.0.0.0 c614 04 freq_mode
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Aug 9, 2009
If the server restarts, does the information in iptables get lost? I have seen a number of pages where people recommend readding lines or creating bash scripts to get it to work again. What about files like squid.conf, ncsa_auth files, etc.?
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Aug 10, 2009
Is the crontab saved in case of server restarts?
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May 12, 2011
I'm booting Gentoo off of a usb-stick. This has been working previously but now when I try to boot my stick it gets as far as executing the initramfs init script then restarts.The last two lines of my initramfs/init are:
Code:
echo "finished initramfs."
exec switch_root /new-root /sbin/init
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May 24, 2010
I run computers that do distributed computing for cancer cures. I'm experimenting with running a version of Ubuntu that is specifically written for DC and can be run on bootable USB drives. The one I'm running now on USB works fine but there is one issue I need to solve. When I reboot the system or it restarts from a power failure I have to reattach the cruncher client(BOINC)to the each project and I lose whatever work units that have started. I don't have this problem if I use a HDD. I'm using an 8GB USB drive with 6GB of DDR3 12800 memory. Can someone explain to a linux novice how to overcome this issue?
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Mar 3, 2010
My laptop running ubuntu 9.10 load NEVER drops below 1, and generally hovers between 1 and 2. This does not happen on any other of my ubuntu machines.
Any ideas of what to check? I've turned off indexing and watched system monitor. I always sit at 0% cpu usage, no active apps, but always a high load.
Attached is a screenshot showing top (with the load).
In my system monitors up top you can see the middle one in red, which is load. Constantly 1-2. The left one is cpu (almost no usage at all) right right one is disk IO.
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Sep 3, 2010
I'm on 10.04. 64bit (but dont think this is 64bit related)
I have been getting this very annoying error while trying to burn DVD-DL media from an iso using growisofs. Here is the command I used (to burn a backup copy of an xbox360 game)
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growisofs -use-the-force-luke=dao -use-the-force-luke=break:1913760 -dvd-compat -speed=2.4 -Z /dev/scd0=nameofmyiso.iso
Now, every single time, usually around 50%, I get this error:
:-[ WRITE@LBA=aacf0h failed with SK=3h/WRITE ERROR]: Input/output error
write failed: Input/output error
I've been searching around and found threads with people complaining about this error since 2005, but not a single one of them presented any solution (some hint to a kernel issue, which I'd have no idea how to fix. I'm a noob at linux).
I also tried burning it using imgburn under wine, same error, also at 50%.
This is very frustrating, Ive burned around 6 coasters so far and DVD-DL are expensive to keep on this trial and error.
p.s It's not faulty media before anyone asks. I tried it on Mac and it worked fine. Also, this drive worked well before, before I migrated this machine.
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Nov 5, 2010
I'm using Lucid on a laptop, (details in sig). Often after I've been running Ubuntu for a while, like a few hours, my HD activity light will come on and not stop, causing my machine to become laggy. (A link might open 3-5 seconds I click on it, typing appears a second after I press the key, a window or dropdown menu might take 5-10 seconds to be drawn.) I currently have Firefox with one tab and a Nautilus window open. Conky says the CPU is running at 10-20%, RAM is almost all used, (I assume Firefox's cache is filling up, since I've been surfing for a while), and swap is around 25% full. I just turned Compiz & Emerald off, but the HD is still spinning away. At this point, I usually log out and in again, or reboot. I though slowing performance with usage, resource-hogging background processes and constant rebooting were Windoze traits! What gives?Apparently, this is caused by Update Manager. Unbeknownst to me, Update Manager was waiting for me to give it the go-ahead, but while it's open, instead of patiently waiting, it renders my computer unusably slow, even though it's not supposed to be doing anything.
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May 1, 2011
here's the videos video of the error in action
i just upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 and am using the "classic" gnome 2 interface. i have an ati card, currently powered by the standard fglrx drivers. something must be wrong with compositing, because when i mouse over avant window navigator, indicators, menus, drag files, etc, there is a good (but still random) chance of it breaking my display.
just for the record, i have tried this with the newest catalyst drivers from the official website, the fglrx drivers from the repository and without any fglrx drivers at all. i am running a patched version of emerald that works with the included compiz, but i still get the same crashes with metacity's window decorator and without avant window navigator. indicator menus will just crash the screen from gnome-panel.
i had also gotten this same problem in a previous natty install using unity.
edit: hmm, disabling compiz seems to keep the crashes at bay, so i think this is a (major) compiz bug. does anyone know which logs i should include in my bug report?
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Jun 21, 2010
I'm on a MacBook Pro 2,2 with Ubuntu 10.04. Multiple times Ubuntu freezes up and then crashes. I'm not entirely sure what is causing these crashes, but they happen mostly when I'm running anything graphics related, especially games. Although the crashes haven't been isolated to those instances. Any ideas on what could be causing this?
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Jul 5, 2010
I recently wiped and partitioned my hard drive on my Sony Vaio Z series laptop. I set up the NTFS partition for windows, the Ext-4 partition for Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Remix, and a large NTFS partition for my all my media. I installed the netbook remix off of a flash drive, and I couldn't have asked for a smoother install. Everything went fine, and I proceeding to install google chrome and all the other little goodies. After that, I configured all my settings and ran the update manager to get everything just fine. After a reboot, I became frustrated and prevented maximus from running on start up because I did not want every windows I opened to be maximized. After a reboot, the screen would flash very brightly more than once per second. I could see the top bar with the processes and such as well as the correct background, but I cannot do anything because the screen will not stop flashing. I figured out I could stop it from flashing by pressing ctrl+alt+F7, but the screen just freezes where it is at and is still unusable. Desperate to start enjoying my Ubuntu Netbook Remix, I wiped the Ubuntu partition and reinstalled and did everything EXACTLY the same except instead of preventing maximus from opening, I used gconf-editor to change the setting to not maximize everything by default. Reboot, exact same problem.
I've searched everywhere for a solution, but I only find people with vague similarities or explanations. Could it possibly be a graphics problem? My laptop has 2 graphics cards in it - an Intel integrated one and an nVidia one. The nVidia one has a hardware issue so I just use the Intel one for now. It is also worth noting that I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 (desktop) on my machine before and I never had any such problem.
Also, I tried booting up in the "safe mode" equivalent, but I eventually encounter a black screen and I am forced to hold down the power button to shut it down.
(also, if it's worth anything, I know how to use windows well if there's any way I can change something in Ubuntu from my windows installation)
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Feb 19, 2011
Very often I have to leave my computer for a few minutes while in the process of downloading files, or just to get a cup of coffee, and when I come back, I have to re-enter my password to continue. This level of security is unnecessary since I am the only one here, and there is no danger of anyone ever messing with my PC. How can I eliminate these annoying login requests? One reason I am trying to get away form Windows is to have the computer do what I want, and not what other people think I want. I have been experimenting with various Linux OSs and several versions of Ubuntu, and this is an annoyance in every one I try.
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Aug 11, 2011
I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a flash drive and everytime I try to do an update I get the following error message:
Code:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.32-33-generic (2.6.32-33.72) ...
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-33-generic
lzma: Encoder error: -2147467259
Failed to create initrd image.
[Code]...
also, I would like to know if I want to make clones of the flash drive, would a copy and paste suffice or do i need to use some cloning software? I have followed the instructions on ubuntu wiki to make my casper-rw larger than 4GB by making it an ext4 partition.
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Jul 18, 2010
Doesn't matter what application I am using this thing locks up tighter than a prison cell. I can't seem to do anything but reboot at that point. 11.2 never had this problem on this computer. I'm running a nvidia gt 220 card without the nvidia driver. Could this be the problem? I really don't know what to do about it. I was running the default kernel, but switched to the pae kernel as I have 4 gig of memory. Still locks up.
Probably should have stuck with 11.2 for a while longer, but at this point I would like to get 11.3 working. If not I will just go back to 11.2.
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Feb 11, 2010
unfortunately it looks like UNR 9.10 is as unusable as desktop 9.10 was (constant freeze crashing). Is there anywhere I can download 9.04 UNR? Ubuntu.com only seems to let you download the latest version.
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May 2, 2010
Just put a fresh clean copy of Lucid on the laptop. I have noticed this for a while on the otherr versions and distros also, and finally started looking at. My laptop runs, contantly.The fan seems to be always running. I don't have more the a couple of applications at time, I don't use it for work, so nothing extensive. Web browsing, music, email, photos. End user stuff. So I added a heat application in the panel just to see what was happening. I can get the temp down to around 150F-ish if I am not even looking at the laptop. But, open anything and start workingand I am sitting arround 183F-185F. Is this normal? I am just getting toired of having such a hot laptop on my lap, I even have a pad under it so the air can circulate witht the fan, but, a constant running fan is what I have and the heat can be felt through the pad if I am sitting for a couple of hours.
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May 18, 2010
When attempting to boot into Ubuntu 10.04, the screen constantly flickers. It'll stay off for about 2-3 seconds, then come back on for <1 second. This constantly occurs. When reaching the main screen (I think), I attempt to move into a TTY terminal, but the flicker continues. I have attempted to reset the X Server, stop the X server, etc., issue remains. The monitor does not turn off during this flickering. I am able to type, obviously.
Here are my system specs:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual (6000+)
2.00 GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD2600 XT (x2, Crossfire)
HP w2207h 22" Monitor, connected via HDMI
I also have VGA inputs on the back of the monitor and can attempt to switch the input, but that requires me to dig through a box looking for a cable, so I figured I'd post this issue first.
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Dec 4, 2010
I am trying to solve, on my EEEPC 1001p running 10.10, the following problems:
(1)Sound is dead.It was working fine; but after a OS crash (see 3) it did not start to work once the reboot occurred;
(2)Mouse Touch Pad is dead.It was not working after the initial install.I read some threads about this and updated the BIOS on the EEEPC - then the mouse pad worked until a system crash (see 3) after which the mouse pad would not work any more.(The BIOS update corrected the screen brightness control).
(3)Fatal Crashes: the monitor screen goes black save for the mouse indicator.Nothing will take the system out of this state save for turning the power off and rebooting.
Error 3 will occur if I run compiz or not; if I keep my wireless mouse connected or not.
Error 3 did not occur when I told ubuntu to start a 'save-desktop' session.
I looked at the error logs but I am far from sufficiently knowledgeable to know exactly what I should be looking for; nonetheless I did not see anything in the error logs that had 'E' for error.Somewhere on some thread I read someone suggested that re-writing the XORG.conf file would be a prudent thing to do. I thought I would just now look at that file; so I terminaled: sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.When the file opened all that was contained in the file was the number 1.That makes me suspect there is something wrong here for I remember looking at that file a long time ago when I had a problem with 8.04 and I believe it had a lot of information it it.
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Dec 14, 2010
I have tried to keep away from posting this seeing how many have had the same problem but this is getting to the point of me just selling my computer out of shear frustration. Ive got Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.04lts. For a while they all ran fine together till my Windows drive gave out and ever since I tried to remove the drive GRUB recovery has been popping up. I even tried to put the drive back in and the computer still wont boot anything. Ive got 4 different live boots and neither one works, Ive tried to boot with my internal dvd drive and a usb one, there is always a Grub error. When I put in the ls command and find my only non"unknown filesystem" it still says "bad filename". I guess where im getting at is grub wont even let me reformat my computer or boot from anything without saying "no such device: 32d98-e0b3-451b-809b-ae6562ccb701"
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Dec 30, 2010
I downloaded Ubuntu 10.10 in November 2010 and used the windows installer to install it next to my Windows 7 OS. I have a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I am a beginner user and only Ubuntu when I need to run the terminal and text editor to create and test simple C++ files. Today, the install manager requested that I install critical updates so I left the default selected files and upgraded. The it asked to restart the system so I said yes. When it restarts it asks which OS to load:
1. Windows 7
2. Ubuntu
So I select Ubuntu then it displays some message about NTFS and quickly reboots (so i can't get to read the remaining message) the PC again. Uusually it would ask me to select the version of Ubuntu to load. Now my PC will only laod up Windows 7 so I can't get back into Ubuntu to dianose the problem.
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Apr 6, 2011
I understand that Ubuntu typically has some disk activity even when idle, but I believe that I have a problem that I am worried is affecting my disk drive - which has recently become quite loud. The system disk activity light flashes about twice per second, all the time, when idle. iostat shows a Blk_wrtn/s of between 10 and 40. I am running Lucid x64. The system disk uses ext4 for root and ext4 for /home. The disk activity starts before I even log in. There is no disk activity if I drop to the root shell in recovery mode - as seen by no flashing light and iostat writes = 0. I have tried killing my media server processes, Mediatomb and Squeezeboxserver. I have unmounted the ntfs data drive. There is nothing else running beyond the vanilla install to my recollection other the services above that I stopped. How can I determine which process is causing the constant writing? I do not have this issue on my laptop which is running Karmic, and as I mentioned earlier, I think this non-stop activity is damaging my drive.
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Jun 15, 2011
How can I, a single user, stop the hassle of having to constantly log in. Ubuntu 11.04 is what I currently using.
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Jan 14, 2010
I've recently installed Fedora 12, and it constantly freezes. The only common aspect between the freezes is that the freezes occurred when firefox was running. When it does freeze, I'm not able to use ctrl+alt+f[1...6] or even ctrl+alt+backspace.
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Mar 23, 2010
I've just allowed the update manager to update my system and now it boots as far as the login screen then immediately reboots, tried to use the installation disk repair system option but the only option it would allow was install system. anyone known how to boot into single user mode to try and fix this? or is re-installation the only option? I've discovered that hitting esc will booting gives me a more informative boot seems that udev is not loading looks terminal to me.
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Oct 13, 2009
I'm running openSUSE 11.1, with KDE 4.3.00. My Kopete, version 0.70.90, disconnects and reconnects to my jabber server several times a minute.
The jabber server, running the latest version of Openfire, is on the same gigabit subnet as the openSUSE machine in question. I can successfully connect to other IM services (MSN, Yahoo, etc) with no trouble. I also have no trouble with any other network service, from NFS to IMAP. I have other (Windows / Miranda IM) clients connecting to this same jabber server, all without trouble.
It drives me nuts, and it drives everyone else on my buddy list nuts too, as they see constant offline/online notifications for my user.
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