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

[Andre Mangan]

Good to learn that your fstab is now fixed.  As a result, I would say that
you have become more confident in using the command line in the terminal.  I
keep a book recording what commands fix what, a good practice to develop.
There is also one book that I can recommend:  Visual Quickstart guide to
Unix by Deborah and Eric Ray.  Although I have many books on Linux, the Unix
book surpasses them all.  There are also some excellent resources on the
net, such as http://linuxcommand.org that will unravel the mysteries of
Linux commands.

It appears though that something is still awry on your machine and the best
option really is to reinstall.

To save all the information from your present installation you could just
burn it onto a CD or two or three.  Alternatively you could buy a USB stick
with a larger capacity than the one you have.  I use several USB sticks, the
largest is 4GB but also use an external USB hard drive of 60GB that has a
cloned copy of my entire Ubuntu installation on it.  You could even try to
save all your data to a folder on your Windows partition but that is really
trying to put all your eggs into one basket.

Cheers,
Andre




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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> Anthony J Brow <tbrow at tpg.com.au>
>
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