Ok odd title, anyway, the wireless stopped going anywhere yesterday, but a reboot fixed it. The it froze twice each needed a reboot to fix, no real video/graphic work was going on. One time I was looking at backgrounds, didn't apply just looking, then the other time I was organizing bookmarks in Firefox. The EXT4 fs is finished right? I just want to know if the fs is at fault.
I have the latest Ubuntu, all updtes present. Anything I should know?
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ext4 is now considored stable. It sounds like a device (maybe your wireless) is locking your system. Research your wireless device and see if it throws up any recent posts anywhere or on the ubuntu forums.
Hmmm, it is a SMC EZconnect, my dad used the same one on a Ubuntu 8.04 LTS system for about a year, no freezes for him at all. Could it be my graphics card?? Windows is fine. Is there a memory test app. for Ubuntu, see if it might be bad ram. It froze on a wired connection also. The most recent freeze was when playing a youtube vid. if that is any clue to the cause. I found a topic about 10.04 freezes on the ubuntu forums,, no sources really connected to them, but more than a few people having freeze prob. I uninstalled the Nvidia driver to see if that fixes it.
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I would consider looking through /var/log/messages to see if it gives any hints as to what is crashing your system. It's all timestamped
Ok next time I will pay attention to the time, so I can look.
I looked, don't see anything really, I saw it entered recovery mode, but thats is about it. If I save the file will you look for me??
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Maybe 3 years.
EVGA. nForce 650i ultra Intel Core 2 Duo Wolfdale E8200 2.66GHz
6MB Cache Dual Core 1333MHz 2 Gig DIMM-DRAM NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS with 512 DDR3 memory (PCIe 1.00 x16)
I can not find any crash info in the log file. I think it is a bug with Ubuntu 10.04, found a topic about it on the Ubuntu forums, but no sources are really connected & I can't log in to their forums (no idea why, I have a account). So it maybe bad ram? Ubuntu 8.04 LTS never froze & it was on hear maybe a week back...
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Ok next time I will pay attention to the time, so I can look.
I'm more than happy to if you'd like.
Ok how do I get it to you?? I have found no clues though.
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It isn't a big deal, just wish I could find a clue. Think I should do a memtest?
The only problem with debian is it usually takes a shedload of googling to get all the niggles working pukka and then it works for ...A....G...E...S..
So you forget everything you did to suss it out
Then.. one fine day
Something goes wrong... Something you already learnt but just can't remember.
And you REALLY can do without the three day Google-athon learning it again.
so you're left with a difficult choice.
Either learn it all again or change to Debian made easy (Ubuntu)
or
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M
A
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H
IT UP
Gnaaaaaaagh !!
So you forget everything you did to suss it out
Then.. one fine day
Something goes wrong... Something you already learnt but just can't remember.
And you REALLY can do without the three day Google-athon learning it again.
so you're left with a difficult choice.
Either learn it all again or change to Debian made easy (Ubuntu)
or
S
M
A
S
H
IT UP
Gnaaaaaaagh !!
Exactly what i did.
I used Ubuntu from version 6 through to the 8.04LTS. Every version since then has been broke for me. Something with my PC and PAM, Ubuntu refused to accept my password, despite several password resets and re-installs it never worked, i had hoped that the 10.04LTS would work but it still carried the same problem.
After several distro hops i ended up sticking with Debian 5, doesn't seem as 'fragile' but as said above it takes a bit of setting up.
