the weather is warmer... but Feisty is still freezing

[Frode Egeland]

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Hi Anthony,

I would recommend that you get a usb memory stick or external HDD,
boot up with the LiveCD, mount your /home partition,
put the USB stick/HDD in and copy your /home/ directory onto it.
Then, when you have a good backup, you can do a full reinstall.. :)

Cheers,
Frode
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On 13/08/07, Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hallo Ubuntuaires Ande, Frode and others,
>
> Seeing my 'fstab ' seems to be fixed, I still have the problem of Feisty
> freezing for no known reason to me ( a newbie). However.. with my
> frequent rebooting because of the freezing of programs, a black screen
> appeared at one stage, mentioning something like "/etc/init.d/powernowd:
> 156: cannot... " and the rest I could not read as the screen went blank.
> I looked in Google for 'powernowd' and that seems to happen in different
> degrees, some people have  freezing troubles after booting up, in my
> case it happens when trying to do something with locating documents by
> name or looking in the 'Evolution'  email address list or trying the
> gLabels Label Designer. When 'evolution mail' indicates that there say
> are  2 messages the system also freezes and I get the messages only
> after the next reboot. For the reboot I have to do "control alt
> backspace and when the yellow Ubuntu page appears, I have to go to
> options ( l/h bottom of page) and press 'restart. I understand this has
> something to do with 'power'. I would like to reload  'Feisty' from
> scratch from the CD, but I stand to loose a lot of pictures and all my
> email addresses. Feisty is dual booting with WinXp.
>
> Please help
>
>
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>
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