I have the latest Ubuntu, all updtes present. Anything I should know?

Edward78

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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.
 
jack.mitchell said:
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.
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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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FirebarUK said:
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 :)
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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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Outcast said:
How old is your hardware ?

Read my shenanigans with new hardware.
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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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