Ubuntu Installation :: System Crashes In 10.04?
May 25, 2010
I upgraded not so long ago from version 9.10 to 10.04. What never happened before then started. I have system crashes all the time. When I play Solitaire, use Firefox and copy files.
I use ubuntu now for several years (at least since 8.04) and I never had a system crash before. I have a P5P800SE motherboard, a celeron 3.06 GHz processor and use 512 MB of memory. Ubuntu is installed under windows XP professional version 2002 service pack 3.
If not I will return to version 9.10 and wait for version 10.10.
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Jun 7, 2010
I have an old PC in my basement that I decided to load Ubuntu onto a few months ago. I ran version 9 for a while and then recently upgraded to10.04.Unfortunately, I've been having issues with intermittent system crashes using both versions. Sometimes the computer will work fine for hours and other times it will crash 20 seconds after startup. I'll be able to provide much more information tonight when I get home but for now I wanted to plant the seed in the forum and see if anyone has any ideas.The computer will be working fine and then all of a sudden the screen will go black and then start blinking, switching between a blank screen and a blank screen with a bunch of tiny white squares/lines. When I restart, things seem okay again.
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Aug 21, 2010
I installed Ubuntu 10.04.1 yesterday, and I've been trying to install my nvidia 240 drivers for it. I've done this multiple times on 9.## and it worked fine. When I try to install them it says i need to shutdown xserver. so I open terminal and type sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop screen goes blank and all there is is a flashing _ at the beginning. I'm not able to anything except type, but no commands work.
So, I tried starting it up in recovery mode root shell or whatever, and it shows the command prompt. Then I login, and it says welcome, I go to my downloads folder and type sudo sh NVIDIA...256.44.run and it says I need to be in telinit 3, so I get out of the installation and type sudo telinit 3.well that brings me up to a login command so I type my username then it askes for a password, which I also fill in.Now it says incorrect login. So I try again, and it keeps going on, but then I noticed that it puts the first letter of my username infront of Password.And the only way I can get out of that is by Alt + Ctrl + Del to restart, same when I shutdown gdm.
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Feb 11, 2011
10.04 Ubuntu / Gnome My system has just started crashing back to the Gnome login screen. Tried removing recently installed packages, as well as the repair broken packages from login screen.
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Jul 25, 2011
I have been using Kubuntu for a LOOONG time now, completely happily without any noticeable problems. But, on my birthday, with the help of a few contributions, I was finally able to upgrade my PC to a Core i7.
And for the most part, things are still smooth sailing. Except for Kopete, which randomly crashes at times, bring the entire beast of a PC to a halt. Basically what happens is it suddenly lets off notification gongs like a machine gun. Then there are windows that popup that say something about "Yahoo Plugin Error". And judging by the number that increases in the titlebar, it makes A LOT of those windows. But the contents of the window itself are never rendered. It usually gets up to about <105> before the entire system just freezes.
The only difference between my old system and this one, in terms of software is the change from 32 bit to 64 bit. If someone could tell me how to fix this problem, or just point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated. This is driving me insane!!
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Apr 13, 2011
My laptop running Ubuntu 10.10 had suddenly go to a dark gray screen that will not take any kind of input other than holding to power button down for 5 seconds. I'm not running any new or odd programs just Firefox, Openofice writer, and Pidgin. When I turn the computer back on I do not see any kind of an error message. I'm looking for any advice that will help me find the cause of the problem.
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Jul 14, 2011
fresh install Ubuntu 10.04 x86Compaq Presario sr1123wmno visual effects System run great other than crashing when ever i try to change desktop image. Not sure witch log file to look at for errors.
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Sep 22, 2010
Well, turns out that when I rebooted into the installed system a user setup utility launched, but now whenever I try to log in as me, X crashes and GDM starts up again, telling me to relog in.
Now it's the case of "A setup utility launches and I set up my user, only to try to log in and get kicked in the face by GDM, having done all that work for nothing".
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May 5, 2010
Since having installed Lucid Lynx, I have several complete system crashes a day, no matter which applications I am using. Lucid crashes without any error message and the system reboots. I have had no problem whatsoever with Karmic Koala (also switched from ext2 to ext4 when installing Lucid Lynx). Is there any probable reason for that or a workaround? Can I paste any logs here for anybody to figure out what might be going on? When I try XP which is also install, the system won't crash (so far...), so I don't think it's a hardware problem.
My system:
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H, AMD 780G, ATX
Processor: AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ AM2 box "EE" 65W, 2x512kB
Coolermaster Centurion5 Schw. CAC-T05-UW ohne Netzteil
ATX BE Quiet! Straight Power 400 Watt / BQT E5
2x2048MB DDR2 Aeneon PC6400 CL 5, PC6400/800
DVD: LG GH20N bare schwarz (SATA-II)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA II ST3500320AS
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May 8, 2010
When I play a video file whether with VLC or Movie Player the system will crash. The screen will go black with some text output (all I can quickly read is something about pulse audio) then flash black, then text, then black over and over. I tried to edit a video with Pitivi and the system crashed too. I saw an error about gstreamer that time. I set multimedia to No Xv and the test works but when playing an avi the system still crashes. If I test the multimedia with autodetect the system crashes.
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Feb 7, 2011
I am not sure as to why but rhythmbox actually freezes the system. I am unable to get into another desktop by pressing control-alt-F1, F2 etc. I am not sure how to diagnose this problem. The window loads, and then the system just crashes. According to the software Manager I am using version 0.12.8-1.43
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Feb 18, 2010
I have just installed CentOS 5 (using "linux text" installation), and now it won't boot. The system crashes after OS selection.
I was told to remove boot media when rebooting, but that doesn't work either.
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Mar 1, 2011
I've been using Ubuntu for quite a while, several years, though several upgrades. Experimented with various things, uninstalled some and various other messy activities. Some things don't work as well as they used to. Sometimes my system crashes, or hangs for a while before coming back. I still get a KDE screen when I shut down, though I attempted to uninstal that desktop. I would like to start over, that is with as little trouble possible to reinstall from scratch. Have to save my user directories, also the directories for my LAMP applications.
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Jun 17, 2011
I randomly get system crashes of a fresh Fedora 15 install.
I cannot reproduce, however.
Where would I find information on system crashed (kernel panics)?
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Jul 13, 2010
I have a big problem with my home router / server. The symptom is an alomst complete death. The other computers in the house can use the internet, i.e., the PC is not completely dead, but actually routes. However, it suspends all direct traffic: SSH becomes irresponsive, SMB shares disappear, and so on. It cuts traffic even with a VMWare guest it runs. I can ping it, but that's about it.The worrying thing is that it starts slowly. In the beginning it will start by cutting SMB pipes. It will then become very slow, to the point it won't execute a "shutdown" command.Then I sometimes have flood on port X, "sending cookies". That is certainly due to the P2P program, but cold a sustained flood affect communications on the virtual network adapter vmnet8?And then it enters this catatonic state with no special mention on the log.
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Jul 19, 2010
Upgraded from 11.2 to 11.3 without any issues. However the newer version of Firefox keeps crashing and bringing down 11.3! It's a complete system crash with absolutely no warning, although it looks like 11.3 is trying to send the TERM signal before the pc shuts down.I have other browsers for my work, and both Opera and SeaMonkey work perfectly.Konquerer also works perfectly.
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Jan 10, 2010
Right, I seem to get very random system crashes. My machine will stay up for long periods of time, or sometimes only a few mins, also it doesn't seem related to just using a particular program. As you can imagine this is leading to a bag of woes. After reading on a forum about logs I went to /var/log and in the system log found the following entry . . .
"Jan 10 18:46:10 jon-desktop kernel: [ 92.718896] Either the lower file is not in a valid eCryptfs format, or the key could not be retrieved. Plaintext passthrough mode is not enabled; returning -EIO"
This is repeated multiple times and having checked after a few crashes seems to be the central problem. Being specific about the crashes, they freeze the entire system. Can't ctl-alt-del and sound loops, have to hard reset. I have a feeling that when I first installed Ubuntu 9.10 I selected to use an encrypted file system but have a feeling that I didn't set it up correctly. Not sure exactly what I didn't do but I seem to remember it was to do with generating a passphrase. So . . .
1) What is this error from my logs?
2) Is it linked to me not setting up the encrypted filesystem correctly?
3) Is there a way to check the settings / sort them out properly?
4) Is there documentation for my dullard state which can aid me in this, or is it quite simple?
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Mar 31, 2011
i'm really irritated with this huge problem with my system. i'm using ubutnu10.10 on my dell inspiron 1525. the problem is, whenever i play any video on any browser(firefox and chromium), no matter if its your tube or vimeo or whatever. the system crashes as soon as video starts to play. the video plays for few seconds system starts to slow a bit and suddenly it crashed and shuts down.
also while using the totem videos sidebar i can searhc the video but cannot play it at all.
i get this error
"gstreamer encountered a general supporting library error"
i tried other forums too but.. no help till now. its like 2 months with both these problems
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Apr 15, 2010
I was using Fedora 9 until about 1 month ago when my hard drive crashed. I installed F12 on a new hard drive last week. Due to some other software issues (empathy), I decided I should try to get the latest updates. PackageKit kept giving errors and would not update. So, I researched and found that I needed to run " su -c 'yum update' " for the first update then PackageKit would work. I did this and after about an hour of updating, the screen went black. Nothing you can do at that point but hard reboot.
When I did that, I could only get a "GRUB" command line. I played with it for a minute but really I have no idea what to do with GRUB cmd (beyond my experience level). So I decided to wipe it out and reinstall F12. I did that, and was just working thru the updates again. Same thing happened, went to black screen. I have not rebooted it yet, but Im sure when I do, it will be GRUB again. What in the world am I supposed to do with this? I am not a Linux star, but I have been using it for around 8 years now with various distros, so I would say I have at least moderate experience.
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May 18, 2010
This has just been happening the last day or two. SOmetimes Google Chrome will go funny for a minute then the whole system will crash and give me the error "cannot start kmserver. check your installation".Like i said it's just the last day or two.
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Aug 18, 2010
Every time when I visit facebook site my system crashes, everything that I have opened just closes and my machine returns to a login screen. This only happens when visiting facebook, and I can't relate this to administrative restrictions because I can visit facebook from other computers within the same network.
I am using Scientific Linux 5.4.
Where might be the problem?
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Jan 10, 2010
I love it but I have a problem that someone can hopefully help me troubleshoot. The system intermittently crashes, the screen freezes and nothing works except the mouse pointer which can be moved but not used. Is there a way for me to diagnose this
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May 15, 2010
I have random crashes since I upgraded from Fedora 11 to Fedora 12.I searched the internet to try to find the root cause of the problem.I created this bug report:URL...However, no comments were added how to solve the problem.Enabling msi for nvidia and hda-intel made the system much more stable. But I still experience sometimes crashes.I do not know how to enable msi for uhci_hcd:usX, which is still sharing interrupts with ata_piix and ehci_hcd:usbX.Have you some hints? I hate it when my Fedora Linux system is crashing randomly.
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Feb 10, 2011
I wanted to replace the Nouveau with the proprietary Nvidia driver. I removed Nouveau and changed to console mode with "init 1". Realizing that i did not properly save the binary file i switched back to graphic mode with "init 5" only to have the system freeze. I rebooted and chose the usual kernel in the grub menu. The system continued to load but froze right after the Fedora logo (which hides the textual loading details) finished loading. I can not even switch to a console with ctrl-alt-F1.
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Nov 1, 2009
FC11, 2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586
Code:
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel:last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa2/dev
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel:Process kswapd0 (pid: 22, ti=dfa28000 task=dfa20ca0 task.ti=dfa28000)
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel:Stack:
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: 00000002 00000001 c117a740 c12f52a0 c103ba20 c103ba60 c103baa0 c110a600
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: c110a640 c110a6e0 c136f800 c10ebc40 c10ebc60 c10ebc80 c114e2e0 c114e260
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel:Call Trace:
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c048bf17>] ? shrink_list+0x24d/0x4e1
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c048893d>] ? get_dirty_limits+0x1f/0x2e1
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c0423803>] ? set_next_entity+0xa0/0x10c
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c0402286>] ? __switch_to+0x78/0xfb
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c042c374>] ? finish_task_switch+0x8d/0xa7
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c048c3c1>] ? shrink_zone+0x216/0x289
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c048c8dc>] ? kswapd+0x369/0x51b
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c048b14e>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x19b
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c044065d>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c0422947>] ? complete+0x39/0x43
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c048c573>] ? kswapd+0x0/0x51b
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c048c573>] ? kswapd+0x0/0x51b
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c0440365>] ? kthread+0x4b/0x6f
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c044031a>] ? kthread+0x0/0x6f
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel: [<c0403f87>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel:Code: f6 43 ea 01 75 24 8b 85 78 ff ff ff f6 40 08 40 0f 84 63 03 00 00 89 f0 e8 88 14 01 00 85 c0 0f 84 2d 03 00 00 bf 01 00 00 00 89 <f0> e8 db f0 ff ff 89 85 7c ff ff ff 8b 46 08 85 c0 78 2b 83 bd
Message from syslogd@server at Nov 1 21:41:58 ...
kernel:EIP: [<c048b90e>] shrink_page_list+0x1b0/0x56c SS:ESP 0068:dfa29d80
The semaphore timeout period has expired.
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May 18, 2010
Using the howto at http://wiki.debian.org/skype I installed Skype 2.1 beta 2. It launches OK using either skype or linux32 skype and brings up the login screen. It already has my username but when I enter my password skype crashes before logging me in. I get the error:
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 643: _dl_open: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed!
I know this is a long shot since skype isn't open source, but does anyone have a workaround?
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Jun 8, 2011
I am observing a very strange behavior when using strace and don't know the reasons for it.
I do: pstree -Aapnul |less -p bash on my Ubuntu VM which is run with the help of Virtual Box.
I see:
|-gnome-terminal,1418,valentin
| |-gnome-pty-helpe,1419
| |-bash,1420
| | |-pstree,1471 -Aapnul
[Code]....
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May 27, 2010
When I run from the command line, I get this output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/system-config-samba", line 45, in <module>
mainWindow.MainWindow(debug_flag)
File "/usr/share/system-config-samba/mainWindow.py", line 82, in __init__
[code]....
I have removed and re-installed and get the same crash.
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Nov 17, 2010
I have a native 64 bit 11.3 system with vmware 7.0x as an application. I have installed a win 7 guest which works fine 99% of the time. But if I try to plug usb headphones into my system after I boot win 7, it will crash entire system, but if I plug headphones into system before loading vmware, this does not happen. Is this a kernel issue?
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Dec 7, 2010
LIVECD of 11.3 Gnome works fine in my old PC. I installed several times and each time system freezes/crashes during boot. I am linux newbie, so, I am trying to figure out my problems. In Livecd I noticed Hardware info list's my SATA disk as IDE. Driver Modules: "ata_piix"Attached to: #24 (IDE interface). Is it right? I have posted Hardware information output in 01: None 00.0: 10105 BIOS [Created at bios.186] - Suse 11.3 install problem My machine specs are: Intel DG31PR motherboard, Intel core2duo, 3 GB DDR2 Ram, 250 GB SATA harddisk
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