<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">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 --------- 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@gmail.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Doug Stewart <doug.dastew@gmail.com> Subject: Re: software updates To: "The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community" <ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com> Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 10:29 PM <div id="yiv268431693"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Ryan Steele <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:rgsteele@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=rgsteele@gmail.com">rgsteele@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Doug Stewart<<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:doug.dastew@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=doug.dastew@gmail.com">doug.dastew@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Brian McKee <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:brian.mckee@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=brian.mckee@gmail.com">brian.mckee@gmail.com</a>> wrote: </div><div class="im">>> If the output isn't clear, then do sudo aptitude install libmlt-data >> and you'll get the whole story. > </div><div class="im">> Thanks Brian. That worked and got it installed, but my system freezes up > still. > I will have to look deeper. </div>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. </blockquote><div> You are correct I did not mention my problem.</div><div> 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? </div></div> </div> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- <div class="plainMail">-- ubuntu-ca mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com" href="/mc/compose?to=ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>