Lucid keeps freezing up

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Tuesday 01 June 2010, 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.

Does pressing the power button for a prolonged period of time, say 8 
seconds, turn off the computer? (Does your reset button work before 
Linux is booted? If not, it might just be broken...)

  --Reinhold