[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Crashing

[Michael Holloway]

Hi

Hmm sounds odd... its possibly due to a HDD power down, and not powered
up. Have you disabled all your power settings in the BIOS?

A log file that might help you diagnose is /var/log/messages - if there
is anything interesting in there, post it here and we'll have a look.

Cheers,
Michael




On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:03 +0000, Seif Attar wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have ubuntu 7.10 gutsyx64, installed on a new machine I bought, after
> finally getting everything on there, I noticed that it keeps crashing! i
> dont know what causes the crash, it doesn't happen when I am using it,
> usually happens when I have left it for a while (no suspend used, only
> blank screen on idle), when I try to resume my session, the screen works
> normally i can move the mouse, see the applications that were already
> running, but i cannot start new apps, cannot ssh into the machine,
> cannot access apache! now you can imagine how annoying this can be,
> especially when it crashed when i am away from home and need to access
> it!
> 
> Can any1 give me advise on how to troubleshoot this?? I can't run dmesg
> and don't know what logs i should be checking since a hard shutdown is
> forced!
> 
> I did try disabling the nvidia-new driver, thinking it could be causing
> the failure, but it still occured!
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> Seif A.