Lucid keeps freezing up

[Mark Greenwood]

On Tuesday 01 Jun 2010 19:59:14 William Hamra wrote:
> On 06/01/2010 09:27 PM, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> > Between 9 and 11 this morning, Lucid has frozen on me three times. It's been
> > freezing up on me once per day on average since I upgraded from Karmic last
> > week.
> > 
> > Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  E2220  @ 2.40GHz
> > 2 gb memory
> > 
> > I'm not sure where to look for more information. I have a feeling it may be
> > related to memory issues, but at 2 GB, it's hard to imagine my computer
> > using up all the memory. I also thought it might be related to Firefox, but
> > I have the same problem when I use Chrome, Opera, or Konqueror as my
> > browser.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any thoughts? Where can I start looking for some answers?
> > 
> > 
> 
> not as usual as you mentioned, but it has froze on me twice so far. and
> i am clueless how to debug this.
> the weird thing is, when it freezes, the CPU would be high, ~10 seconds
> after the freeze happens, the fans go full speed. AND my reset button
> won't work, which is amazing me. i thought the reset button is hardwired
> to kill the computer, but it won't work, neither does the power button.
> i have to unplug it.
> 
The reset button generates an ACPI event which causes the computer to shut down, so software is involved. However for this not to work it suggests a very low-level kernel crash or infinite loop. Your fans going full speed may also indicate either of those things. Try selecting a different kernel at boot time and see if it fixes things.

Mark