Crashing with Dell

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Mon Aug 22 17:46:13 UTC 2005


On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:24:07AM -0500, Dennis_Drescher at sil.org wrote:
>I've been using Ubuntu for a couple months now on both a Dell Precision
>330 and a Latitude D610. Off and on I've had problems with what I'll
>call hard crashes. What I mean is that the machine completely locks up
>and will not allow me to take it down by going into a shell. The only
>way to recover is to power down. This obviously wreaks havoc on my file
>structure and I have to run fsck often to fix the partitions. The
>Latitude, which is running Ubuntu 5.0.4 (with the KDE desktop
>installed) locks up infrequently and it is hard to predict. The
>Precision 330 locks up several times a day. Sometimes while I'm typing
>or using the mouse, many times just while it is sits idle.
>
>I've used Linux for several years now and have never had such an
>unstable system. I also run Kanotix on both machines in another
>partition and it can run all day long with no problems. I've also run
>checks on my hardware and I'm confident it is functioning okay. I'm
>thinking it might be a problem with X but I'm not sure what to do at
>this point. Can anyone give me some clues as to how to diagnose this?
>Thanks.

Just to make sure:

 Have you tried accessing it via the network, eg via SSH?

I've had a few problems with X on Dell machines (same symptoms as yours,
but not clearly as frequent as it sounds yours are), I could still
access it via the network though. Never bothered diagnosing it (once
every 6 months still beats Windows :-), I just took down X gently,
restarted GDM and I was back in business.

/M

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