Ubuntu 6.06 Machine Constantly locking up.

[Michael R. Head]

Can you look in /var/log/syslog and see if there are any interesting
messages?

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 15:24 +0100, Jamie Kerwick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Up until recently my PC running Ubuntu 6.06 (+ all latest updates) was
> running perfectly, with barely any problems.
> 
> On arriving at work yesterday (this is when said machine lives) I was
> greeted with a totally frozen screen, the pc couldn't be pinged from
> another on the network, and even Left ALT+SysRq+R (keyboard in raw mode)
> and other Left Alt+SysRq keys had no response.
> 
> I rebooted the PC it came up no problem and I used it for a short while.
> Then about 5-10 minutes later when I came back to the PC it was once
> more frozen (the PC is my 2nd PC so I don't use all the time).
> 
> Every time I reboot it locks up with 10 minutes!! (it even locked up
> whilst I was connected via VNC and in the middle of working).
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on which logs etc. I need to look at to
> try and investigate the problem ???
> (whilst the PC is left, there are no applications running).
> 
> Whilst its not a vital PC, it does hold my local mirror of apt repos
> that I use for our intranet servers. And more importantly it hosts my
> work music collection!!!
> 
> Ta,
> 
> Jamie
> 
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