software updates

[Timothy Webster]

Is this a disk problem?

Please check for disk errors in /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages
the file may vary according to your specific configuration of syslog

Also please consider smartmontools
aptitude install smartmontools

gvim /etc/default/smartmontools
edit so that smartmontools is started with init.d

a quick health check
smartctl -HA /dev/sda

detail info
smartctl -a /dev/sda

to run an extensive test
smartctl -t long /dev/sda

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warning smart may or may not provide early warning of disk problems. 
log files always indicate when problems are occurring. 






--- On Wed, 6/10/09, 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: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 10:29 PM



On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Ryan Steele <rgsteele at gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Doug Stewart<doug.dastew at gmail.com> wrote:

>

> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:

>> If the output isn't clear, then do sudo aptitude install libmlt-data

>> and you'll get the whole story.

>

> Thanks Brian. That worked and got it installed, but my system freezes up

> still.

> I will have to look deeper.



You didn't say anything about your system freezing up in the previous

email. Have you tried running a memory test?



When you boot your computer, press Esc when you see the line that says

"Grub loading, please wait". Scroll down to Ubuntu, memtest86+ and

press Enter, and a memory test will start running. Let it run at least

until one pass has completed. If after that the number under "Errors"

says anything other than 0, it is likely you have faulty RAM

installed.



 

You are correct I did not mention my problem.
Here is the background details:
I was running ubuntu 8.4 foe 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 am not really asking for help, but if you have an idea I will try it.

Doug In London Ont.

PS Is there others on here from London?


 


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