software updates
Doug Stewart
doug.dastew at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 01:02:01 UTC 2009
Well I finally solved this problem for me.
Here is the full story
quote from earlier email
"
Here is the background details:
I was running ubuntu 8.4 for 1 year and had all working OK. My daughter
bought a laptop for University stuff so we put ubuntu 9.04 on it. (she /we
love ubuntu). Then I decided to upgrade to 9.04 on my desk top computer. I
read the instructions to upgrade to 8.10 and then to 9.04, and I did that.
Since the upgrade and never before the upgrade, the machine has randomly
crashed in a frozen state, like it is in an infinite loop.
If I am watching a video the sound goes funny then stops and the screen
freezes and there is no keyboard response. the Box temperature goes up
slowly like the CPU is working at 100%.
Without Firefox running it does not freeze. It seems to be related to videos
on firefox.
"
I had 3 partitions on the hard drive XP , ubuntu64 and ubuntu32
I decided to sacrifice the ubuntu64 set up and install a fresh version of
u32 9.04 on that partition. In doing it I decided not to reformat and just
do a install over what was there! This was a mistake, as it worked but
crashed quite often with firefox. I then did it again but I formatted it
this time.
During installation I had to do the safe video mode so that I could see
the screen. and after installation tried firefox and a video and all seemed
OK. I then did all the upgrades and installed the video driver. Now it
crashed!!!! Since I had had no way of knowing which upgrade had introduced
the problem I started all over again
On this attempt, after installation, I tried firefox again and it was OK. I
then installed the video driver " NVIDIA ...(version 180)[Recomended] "
and now it was crashing again. But since this was the only change, I knew I
was getting close!!!
I then tried " NVIDIA ...(version 96) ", and the crashing stopped!!!!
I then installed all the upgrades, and all was good.
I nexed rebooted into my older installation of U32 9.04 and just chaned the
video driver
to " NVIDIA ...(version 96) " and all is well !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
I wish I had tried this first :-(
To document this fully I should post the info about my video card but I have
forgoten the command the show this info.
Would someone help me with this.
Doug
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Tom Mckay <tom.mckay1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Simply copying/restoring all files in /home will
> superficially recreate your settings, however, system-wide programs, such as apache, store their files in /etc . I suggest you backup all of the applicable folders from /etc , and copy them back AFTER you install the applications again, and hopefully your settings will be
> maintained. To prevent future headaches, I suggest you maintain /home on a
> SEPARATE partition, and perform backups regularly. Having /home on a
> separate partition has many benefits, more than I have the time/energy to
> get into deeply. Believe it or not, I just got off work (5:00AM !!!).
> Best of luck,
> Tom McKay
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:04 AM, alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>
>> Reply-to: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
>> <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> To: tdwebste2 at yahoo.com, The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
>> <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: software updates
>> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:23:51 -0400
>>
>> Me again.
>>
>> This problem was never solved. at times it seemed to be solved and then
>> more problems.
>>
>> I found a web page that seems to be the same problem that I am
>> experiencing
>> http://r3dux.org/?p=500
>>
>> His final solution was to backup HOME and reinstall 9.04.
>>
>> Is there anyone on this group that has had this same problem?
>>
>> IF I backup home and then install ubuntu 9.04 and then copy my backed up
>> home to my new home directory
>> this will not restore every thing (apache web server pages etc).
>>
>> So what all should i back up so that I can get back to where I am now?
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> This was the site that was doing most of the crashes but other
>> sites also crashed it.
>>
>>
>> http://www.hancockwildlifechannel.org/staticpages/index.php/20090302200021473
>>
>> I ran this site all afternoon yesterday and no crashes.
>>
>> doug
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Timothy Webster
>> <tdwebste2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Doug,
>>
>> Assuming you found a firefox configuration that does not
>> play nice!
>>
>> Do you have the same firefox addons enabled now as
>> before.
>> Was this a problem with flash sites or all websites?
>>
>> -Tim
>>
>>
>> --- On Fri, 6/12/09, Doug Stewart
>> <doug.dastew at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: software updates
>>
>> To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community"
>> <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 6:43 PM
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Doug Stewart
>> <doug.dastew at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Arthur
>> Amendt <amendt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Check your Software Sources file
>> (System -> Administration)
>> uncheck 3 party sources then go
>> to terminal at type sudo dpkg
>> --configure -a
>>
>> This has worked for me.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:00 AM,
>> Doug Stewart
>> <doug.dastew at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I am running ubuntu 9.04
>> and my update manager
>> tells me there is a
>>
>> Distribution update
>> libmlt-data
>>
>> file that I should be
>> installing. The problem
>> is: that I cannot get a
>> checkmark to show up so
>> that it will install.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks to Tim and Arthur
>>
>> I looked at the Logs and found nothing
>> to help. But I did notice that it only
>> hapend when Firefox was running, so I
>> removed Firefox
>> and reinstalled. So far so good - will
>> let you Know if it happens again.
>>
>> Thanks again
>> Doug
>>
>>
>>
>> Firefox with video has run since 12:00 with no
>> crash . so this is closed now.
>>
>> Thank
>> Doug
>>
>>
>>
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>> Might be that you need to install the same set of
>> programs, you had the last time, then everything may
>> come back OK!
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>> Alf!
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