ubuntu hangs up

[steve]

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Karl Larsen wrote:
> elmo wrote:
>> Felipe DOMINGUEZ wrote:
>>   
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I have experience a couple of hangs up on ubuntu 8.04 in the last two days.
>>> It just stop working. Not able to use the mouse, nothing. I had to shutdown
>>> the computer in both cases.
>>>
>>> I have done a search on google and it seems it happens often.
>>>
>>> is it there any patch that can be installed or any thing that can be done to
>>> avoid it?
>>>
>>> thanks.
>>> Felipe
>>>
>>>   
>>>     
>> Welcome to the club.   I've been having the same problem and in spite of 
>> all the "remedies" offered here, the problem is still there. 
>> I don't have any problem with 7.10 but 8.04 goes into total lockup, 
>> sometimes very soon after booting and sometimes it works perfectly for a 
>> long period before lockup and like you, the only exit from lockup is to 
>> do a shutdown.
>>
>> elmo
>>
>>
>>   
>     OK guys, we have what sounds like 3 kinds of Ubuntu hang up. So we 
> better get a handle on what the hang up is really like. Here are some 
> questions about what your hang up does:
> 
>     1. What do you see on your screen:
> 
> I see a cross hatch multi color screen.
> 
>     2. What does your keyboard do?
> 
> My keyboard appears dead. A Ctrl-Alt-F1 does nothing.
> 
>     3. What does your mouse do?
> 
> My mouse appears to not work at all.
> 
>     4. How do you fix the hang up?
> 
> I turn off my computer and then back up.
> 
> Please fill in your effects so we can see what the differences are.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
Hi,  you may all want to compare hardware as well...... maybe all the
same chipset or video card or ethernet chip?

I have a lockup problem with heavy ethernet usage (VIA VT6102 rhine-II)
with a compaq presario desktop/aka mythbox..... sometimes streaming of
movies from a file server locks up the computer.  no choice but to
reboot.  no ssh, no ctrl alt to a tty, nothing works..Thought it was an
audio buffer overflow problem once (from logs) but cured that and still
have a problem ...intermittent, albeit annoying at times!





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