Ubuntu crashes every few days

[Chanchao]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 23:27 -0500, Neil McLeod wrote:

> Every few days, my entire system (Ubuntu Dapper on a Thinkpad T42)
> crashes. I can't even move the mouse or suspend the computer. Pressing
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or Ctrl+Alt+Delete does nothing.

I had erratic behavior before which was caused by not having any swap
memory / swap file available. (which got lost for some reason).  You can
check that in the 'System Monitor' from System->Administration..

Secondly I would try disabling any special drivers you might be running,
and turn off as many services as possible.

Finally you can just reinstall Dapper. (or Edgy)  It should run fine on
a Thinkpad, unless there's some hardware/memory problem of course.  (Try
a mem-test)

Cheers,
Chanchao