8.04 randomly locks up.

[elmo]

elmo wrote:
> elmo wrote:
>   
>> This my fifth attempt to send this message. The first four times were 
>> tried when I was running UBUNTU 8.04, twice with CD version and twice 
>> with the DVD version, but freezeup occurred and the messages couldn't be 
>> sent.  I finally had to resort to Windows XP to send this message.
>>
>> I have both, the CD and DVD, versions of 8.04 ubuntu installed and I'm 
>> having a freezeup problem with both. The two were downloaded from 
>> different sources.  The earlier versions (6.04 - 7.10) didn't have any 
>> such problems and neither does it occur in Windows. 
>>
>> The freezeup seems to be completely random but seems to occur when I 
>> move the cursor
>> to select some operation.  It doesn't happen every time I move the 
>> cursor, it is completely random.
>>
>> When freezeup occurs, mouse operation and none of the keyboard keys have 
>> any visible effect except pressing the power button on the computer to 
>> shut it off and start over.
>>
>> I'm quite sure  I have the proper (for my computer) versions of  ubuntu 
>> installed.
>> All of the earlier ubuntus never gave me any problem.
>> Could this be some flaw in 8.04?
>>
>> elmo
>>   
>>     
I just finished deleting the CD version of 8.04 and reinstalling the CD 
version of 7.10.   No problem-----it works fine.

I also did a web search for 8.04 lockups and it seems that it's quite a 
common problem.

http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg861031.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/228633

It seems to me that if all the other ubuntus that I've used in the past 
all worked
perfectly on this computer and now 8.04 has this  quirky lockup  on the 
same computer,  the chances  that there's something wrong with the  
computer are  slim, especially  now that I've  deleted the CD version of 
8.04 and replaced it with a 7.10 version that worked perfectly before I 
installed 8.04 and again when I replaced 8.04 with my old 7.10. The DVD 
version of 8.04 has exactly the same kind of lockup as the CD version. 
Perhaps all 8.04's aren't exactly the same depending on where they came 
from.

In the past, I had as many as 7 different Linux systems installed 
simultaneously and never had such a lockup problem.

A pox on ubuntu 8.04!  Well, maybe I'll try downloading from a different 
source. 

elmo