I'm now on 11.04 (64 bit on a desktop), but had the problem on 10 as well. I get the occasional complete system freeze. There is nothing in the logs indicating a problem and it is not the graphics card, as I cannot ssh in from another machine. It sometimes happens after three days of running and sometimes after 20 hours.
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I am using 10.4 on a Toshiba satellite pro L100 and have got it working well enough with ubuntu. However, every now and again it freezes on start up and I think it may be before the automatic disc driver check and scan that happens on start up now and again. It gets stuck and tells me
[ 33.117318][drm:rs400_gart_adjust_size]*ERROR*forcing to 32M GART SIZE (because of ASIC bug?)
I only ask as I have to do a hard shut down and computers don't like them do they?
I'm running a generic kernel with Slackware64 13.37 multilib. Every now and then it freezes at the boot time. It probably happens 1 every 5-7 times, so it's not a big problem, but it indicates that something is not right.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI installed 11.04 on a t420 Thinkpad, and sometimes it suspends normally, but sometimes it cuts to a black screen with white text (attached) and won't finish suspending, making me do a hard reboot.
I tried to fix it by using s2ram, but that did not solve my problem.
Happens on Jessie AMD64 with mate, I can't go to a tty to kill mate system monitor, mouse stop working, keyboard stop working. I tried changing the theme, and now it freeze opening mate system monitor.
View 0 Replies View RelatedI've trouble with booting up xubuntu koala:
When switching to the x11-login, the computer freezes during the change of the screen-resolution. Even switching to a console (ctrl+alt+F1/F2/F3...), ctrl+alt+del or pushing the power-button is not possible. After switching off the PC manually, it won't boot at all and freezes directly after switching on again (at bios-time).
Turning the PC off and on again helps - everything is okay afterwards. This doesn't happen always but it is annoying. Sometimes I have to try this procedure 5 o6 times until I can use the computer. Which of the thousand of log-files is the right one to look in? I am using Xubuntu and a Ati Radeon Xpress Graphics card, along with an AMD64 and the 64-Bit-Version of Xubuntu.
Ever since I made the switch to Ubuntu I have had a problem getting back to the X Windows environment from Virtual Terminals. Control+Alt+F1~6 work fine but when I try Control+Alt+F7 my screen freezes.
I have been trying to find a solution to this problem but it doesn't seem to be affecting many other users. Not sure if it matters, but I'm running 64-bit Lucid Lynx.
After a hardware freeze, my system boots directly into the Ubuntu screen with 5 dots and hangs. Booting into recovery mode loads the tools menu then freezes before I select anything. The system still boots and runs windows 7 from the same hard disk just fine. I've booted a live cd and run file system check on my ext4 partition and it says it's clean. I can mount the volumes and read the data, just can't get the os to boot.Any suggestions before I backup and reformat?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've got the justice edition of sauerbraten, from the tarball on their website (though I didn't have to compile it). Occasionally, when I run it on multiplayer, a map will freeze it. I can't get to a tty unless I first type alt+sysrq+r to release keyboard control from x. Then, I can do ps aux | grep sauer to find it's pid to kill, yet it still gives nothing on x. I then kill all kde things, do sudo service gdm stop and sudo service gdm start, which gets me back to a usable desktop, but weird things will go wrong, like fonts will be the wrong colour. So, to get it back to normal, I have to restart. Is there any way (preferably without actually killing x) of getting my screen back without restarting? I have an integrated intel graphics card, and sauerbraten normally runs at an allright speed.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've got an odd problem and was wondering if anyone had any insight. I'm on Ubuntu 9.10 on a Gateway E-100M and everything works great except for firefox. My machine will hard freeze about once a day when using firefox. The whole OS -- no mouse movement, no keyboard response, etc.I've switched to Chrome for weeks and I get no issues at all. I switched back to firefox and it hard froze within the first hour or so. I know it's unusual that an individual program would freeze the whole OS rather than just crash, but it seems to be a fairly consistent pattern.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently re-installed ubuntu to fix my freezing problem, but with no success. disc has no errors. I cleaned the disc and the cd drive, the cd burner has a problem installing while the dvd drive does fine. The computer is a HP Visualize X-class workstation with dual 1000mhz pentium 3s, 2 gigs ecc ram and a ATI AllinWonder 9700 pro @ 2x agp(wish was higher), on-board sound. So my problems are:
1) It randomly freezes within 24 hours regardless of who is logged in or if effects are on or what the load is. mouse is frozen too, completely unresponsive even ctrl alt f1.
2) My sound is screwy. its supported by alsa but i have to play with the volume to get sound and lots of times there are audio errors, it sounds like its robo-trippin. I have tried the sound guide.
3) Desktop effects only work with the user that logs in first. If I try to activate them when I switch users it searches for drivers then says it cant be enabled. not a priority.
Window xp works okay but the graphics drivers are giving me problems so i decide to do a dual boot.
I think I am going to put in a different video card. maybe its not all there, it got hot once when the fan died, put in a replacement and it worked but i see lines moving down the screen when there are blacks.
After successfully upgrading from 8.04 to 8.1 (where even my wireless worked for the first time) I got a system freeze when I tried to upgrade to 9.04.
I suspect the graphics driver but don't know how to upgrade without X running. After booting in generic mode (kernel 2.6.28-1 I can log in the shell but am lost without the GUI.
Don't know if this is a coincidence, but the other day we had a power cut and my laptop went off. When I tried to reboot it got to the ubuntu start up screen, but when it tries to get to the "desk top" screen it all goes blue and black flashes. I have XP and Vista on the same machine and these both start up ok
View 2 Replies View RelatedI had Ubuntu 9.10 .. upgraded to 10.04 LTS... i dunno if its the ati driver or what but when im on wine the games runs fine for a couple of minutes.. 5 to 10 maybe and then the whole system freezes.. cant close cant do anything... the mouse moves though .. and the sound keeps looping, thats if i use OGG on wine insted of ALSA... This looks like it should be on the wine segment but i dont think so... I mentioned wine cuz ATM wine is all i got on this pc as for games.... im downloading urban terror to see if it freezes too...
I remember that right after i finished installing ubuntu 9.10 i upgraded it right away to 10.04 without having the ati drivers installed, after the installation finished... the boot up logo from ubuntu with purple background was at its normal size as usual... But once i installed the drivers.. the ubuntu boot up logo or whatever its called went all BIG like if it was using another resolution, though once it finishes loading, the resolution goes back to normal when in login screen and desktop.
HOw do i remove the drivers completely? do i have to restart after removing them so i can install new drivers? should i use propietary drivers from amd site or the one found by system--- hardware drivers??? why cant i find envy at synaptics?
Im running desktop dual boot system with two hard drives, one with Windows XP and the other with Ubuntu. Ive had no problems with this until now when I upgraded from Hardy to Lucid. Now I have problems with the system freezing on boot up.
Sometimes it will boot just fine, and at other times it will freeze before the login screen appears. When it does freeze, there are flashing lights on the keyboard and the floppy disk light (yes, its an old computer) is lit constantly. The only thing I can do is switch the computer off and hope it will boot up properly the next time.
When I did the upgrade there were a couple of files where the program asked if I wanted to keep the custom file or overwrite it with the maintainers file and I chose to keep the custom one. I THINK one of them might have been GRUB, but Im not sure.
Has anyone had a similar experience and were you able to cure it? I have seen a thread where people have had the system freeze on them, but Im not sure its QUITE the same thing.
Ive also done a clean install with Lucid on my laptop and have had no problems. The laptop is only running Ubuntu.
Im also wondering if reinstalling Grub on my desktop would solve the problem.
a. If so, would it still show both operating systems?
b. How do you do it?
When I click certain links, such as the one below, Firefox consistently crashes.
The bigger problem is that when it does, everything grinds to a halt, and I have to press the machine's power button.
Is there a way to kill processes when the system locks up? This is on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, using GNOME.
Link to 2 MB PNG file (MAY CRASH YOUR BROWSER)
I am using Ubuntu Lucid and have a problem with firefox (V 3.6.10). It often causes the whole system to freeze nearly every time I access skypoker.com, sometimes straight away, and sometimes within a few seconds or a few minutes. The whole system becomes unresponsive, with only the mouse being able to move (not click). I haven't seen this problem occur with any other sites. This problem does not seem to occur when I use google chrome, but it does with Konqueror. Control + Alt + F1 is unresponsive, along with every other keyboard stroke or mouse click and the only way I can do anything is to restart the computer with the power button.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am running Ubuntu 10.10 on a Lenovo Thinkpad T61p with 2GB RAM. When I was on Ubuntu 10.04, one day suddenly Azureus hung at the 'loading plugin' screen as it begins. I had to hard reboot my system and it(Azureus) never worked after that so I removed it. Then after a couple of months same thing happened with Adobe Acrobat reader. As soon as I opened any pdf and started to scroll, it hung. System didn't respond and had to hard reboot. I moved to foxit reader Then I upgraded to 10.10 and now mplayer hangs occasionally if I try to switch it to full screen. System stops responding totallyn Where to begin debugging from ? I can't figure out any pattern or any way to reproduce it. I haven't tried Acrobat reader and Azureus on 10.10
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs there something similar to the windows TSR thing in Linux? (terminate & stay resident)
The reason I ask is that after replacing my HD and reinstalling Maverick I've noticed the PC freezing up afew times. It seems that memory gets used up and then doesnt free up after the application is closed. The last couple of times this happened today I was doing
1. Copying a number of photos from my flash drive to the HD
2. Burnt a disk with Brasero.
After doing this it froze and I had to crash the system and reboot. I don't remeber this happening before.
Apart from this memory problem it's working OK I think. My system specs are below
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mbdb@M2000:~$ sudo lshw
m2000
description: Notebook
product: Presario M2000 (EK823EA#ABU)
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
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Beginning on the release day for Firefox 4, my system has been encountering hard freezes (no responsiveness to any key entry and only way to restart is by hitting the reset button). I had installed firefox 4 with no issue, but once it was open, it kept freezing my system. Some addons weren't supported anyways, so I uninstalled it and got back my 3.6. At the time I was using rtorrent, but within minutes of using it since the firefox install, my entire system freezes up.
Naturally I suspect HDD or RAM, but both have been extensively tested. Next I began browsing forums and found some tricks like turning off IPv6 or changing settings via HDPARM, but none have made any difference. I have moved on to using Transmission, and the problem still exists, but it occurs much less frequently.
I have also since then noticed that transfers of files from my 500GB OS/Torrent drive to my RAID 5 array and vice versa moves at 2-4MBytes/s, much too slow. So next I set up my torrent client to download directly to my RAID array, and lo and behold no freezes! Also, while transfering data the system moves at an absolute CRAWL, as in browser windows turning gray, saying that they have stopped responding, etc. I ran a fsck on my 500GB drive, which instantly told me my file system was clean. I'm at my whit's end here! I hate re-posting on a topic, but I feel like I've tried everything!
System Info:
Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit
Kernel 2.6.32-29-generic-pae
AMD Athlon 4450e
1GB RAM, 2.5GB Swap
Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2 Motherboard
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We use Ubuntu 10.10 (32 bit) as a backup server.
The machine is quite ild but still working well.
All works very good but every few days it is crashed and freez.
I do not know what real happeny since i do not work on it, but tring to ping it fail and the monitor is blank.
What can I do?
Which log is relevant?
I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 side-by-side with Windows XP.
Today, all of a sudden my system kept freezing up, forcing me to manually power-down my computer. Well, I tried picking an earlier kernel to boot from and, sure enough, there was no longer a problem.
my computer is very slow to view regular web pages, and generally fails to load them. It seems to be a problem specifically with webpages - I can work over SSH, use email, transfer files over FTP connections, with no noticeable problems, but any regular website (including this one) can take an age to load. This happens regardless of the browser I use (at least, it happens on Firefox, Opera, and Chromium), and regardless of wired or wireless connection (though admittedly I've not tried using a wired connection very much). As far as I can tell, it can also happen on any website. It is specific to linux - my computer is dual-boot ubuntu 10.04/Windows XP, and there is no networking problem when I use Windows.
View 3 Replies View RelatedThe odd time I boot my laptop the screen resolution will change to 1024x768 and I would have to change it back to 1200x800. Not only that but I would have to move all the applets on the panel, to where they were.
This has been happening since I've first installed Ubuntu 7.10 and continues to 10.04.
Here's some information about my screen. sudo lshw -C video:
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*-display:0
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
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Using 11.04 / firefox 5 / chromium 12 whenever i go to 4OD in firefox, i get this dialogue box pop up (see attached) and occasionally the browser crashes. whatever choice i make in the box, the website is sluggish. same sluggishness in chromium, but no pop up box problem only occurs on this website whats happening / how to stop it ?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm building a new system, and yesterday I tried to install kubuntu, but could only get it running using the nolapic option (noapic is not nescessary, and noapic without nolapic won't work). Now I have the system installed but can only get it running using nolapic and therefore without SMP (which is a no go for most people, including me).
When I try to boot without nolapic, the system goes just fine through loading the kernel and kubuntu (that is, until the end of kubuntu's loading screen), but when it's done with loading it displays the login screen and freezes completely. No input or activity whatsoever. Sysrq keys seem not to work either.
I've searched for similar problems but had little luck so far. I'm using a ga-p55m-ud2 mobo, core i3 530 (2 cores with HT) and an HD5770 (if this is relevant at all). I was hoping some of you experienced users could suggest some kind of workaround to the problem (maybe the kernel is configuring the lapics towards a lockup?) or instruct me as to how could I know what the system was doing right before stopping, in order to locate more specifically what's the problem.
I've never used linux as my main operating system (trying to migrate to it now), but I have some notion of it, even though I don't quite know how everything works, so I might not be familiar with some commands or parts of the system operation.
I'm using ubuntu 10.04 and it worked fine but recently I'm getting the following message -
(process:343) GLib_Warning** : getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id(0).
This message comes with a black screen and then no key stroke works and everything totally freezes. then I've to force restart using power switch. This message appears when I'm using internet. I'm using pppoe broadband connection. Without internet it works fine. I'm getting the same prob in Linux Mint 9. I've googled for this problem and almost everywhere it is said that this message appears in booting time and after a few moments everything becomes quite ok but my problem doesn't match with them. I don't get this message in booting time. I get this message when I'm on internet.
On Ubuntu 10.04 when there are more than just one user logged in, if one of users logs off system hangs with a black screen.
After I reboot the machine and log in again, just after GDM login screen I get a window with a message about PowerMeter crash, with suggestion to 'cancel' and 'log off'. Only 'Log off' works, i.e. I'm successfully logged in.
Last entries from system.log before system freeze are:
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