Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes, no idea why...

[leezer3]

Looks promising
Save & run update-grub as per my post.

I'll add the usual disclaimer here though-
You're editing the bootloader, and while this should be painless, if you're unsure of how to recover from this situation, please be wary!

-Leezer-

 

[Edward78]

Looks promising
Save & run update-grub as per my post.

I'll add the usual disclaimer here though-
You're editing the bootloader, and while this should be painless, if you're unsure of how to recover from this situation, please be wary!

-Leezer-

It has been done, all appears to be still working. Well it froze twice, first time had to reboot found no mention of a crash in messages or syslog, then a few minutes minutes later another freeze. Is it the FS it is EXT4? I will try that usbhid command next freeze. Maybe the nvidia driver?? Just the mouse freezes, I can still scroll with the arrow keys, if a video is playing it still plays. Last freeze was a complete freeze. Frozen screen, mouse & keyboard, nothing in any log files messages/syslog/xorg all no mention of a crash. It has something about the system recovering. There was something about orphaned inodes. Some freezes are mouse only, some are complete, if I try that modprode command with no freeze will it maybe help? Someone on the ubuntu forum said it might be the network manager.

 

[leezer3]

It has been done, all appears to be still working. Well it froze twice, first time had to reboot found no mention of a crash in messages or syslog, then a few minutes minutes later another freeze. Is it the FS it is EXT4? I will try that usbhid command next freeze. Maybe the nvidia driver?? Just the mouse freezes, I can still scroll with the arrow keys, if a video is playing it still plays. Last freeze was a complete freeze. Frozen screen, mouse & keyboard, nothing in any log files messages/syslog/xorg all no mention of a crash. It has something about the system recovering. There was something about orphaned inodes. Some freezes are mouse only, some are complete, if I try that modprode command with no freeze will it maybe help? Someone on the ubuntu forum said it might be the network manager.

Very much sounds like the standard freeze to me.
Orphaned inodes aren't anything much to worry about, crop up sometimes when there's been an unclean shutdown.

I'm not on EXT4 or grub2 for that matter, so I can't really help too much on that front.

Not sure what else to suggest if disabling ACPI hasn't worked; IIRC you've seen the massive Launchpad bug, and that's about all that's come out of it.
You could try reinstalling with 9.04 or an alternate distro (I'm very fond of Mandriva), but at the minute I think we're waiting for Kernel upstream to provide a proper fix.
One of the advantages, and for that matter problems of Ubuntu is that they implement new software and changes very very quickly, and these things sometimes crop up.
Disgusted that this has come up on a LTS release though. If it wouldn't be such a pain to recreate the whole config for this system, I'd be on an alternate distro now.

-Leezer-

 

[Edward78]

Very much sounds like the standard freeze to me.
Orphaned inodes aren't anything much to worry about, crop up sometimes when there's been an unclean shutdown.

I'm not on EXT4 or grub2 for that matter, so I can't really help too much on that front.

Not sure what else to suggest if disabling ACPI hasn't worked; IIRC you've seen the massive Launchpad bug, and that's about all that's come out of it.
You could try reinstalling with 9.04 or an alternate distro (I'm very fond of Mandriva), but at the minute I think we're waiting for Kernel upstream to provide a proper fix.
One of the advantages, and for that matter problems of Ubuntu is that they implement new software and changes very very quickly, and these things sometimes crop up.
Disgusted that this has come up on a LTS release though. If it wouldn't be such a pain to recreate the whole config for this system, I'd be on an alternate distro now.

-Leezer-

Ya, I had SuSE/OpenSuSE for years, with no OS freezes, just apps rarely & I just killed them. I love the ease of Ubuntu though, my dad just upgraded actually to 10.04 going to see if he freezes, 8.04 froze on me also, my dad had 8.04 to, but it never froze on him. our systems are the same accept the brands of mice, I have a MS, him Logetch. If it was the mouse, just the mouse would freeze when it froze right? If PMs worked I would ask for a place to send a file with my hardware info for you to look over, don't put a email here evil ones could spam you.