8.04 still locks up

[Nils Kassube]

elmo wrote:
> elmo wrote:
> > Nils Kassube wrote:
> >> elmo wrote:
> >>> I've tried trial and error combinations of keypresses to loosen up
> >>> the cursor....no effect.
> >>
> >> First shortcut to try is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart the X server.
> >> Then try Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get a terminal. That way you can find out if
> >> your machine is completely locked or if only your X session is
> >> broken. When you restart the machine, have a look at the logs. Maybe
> >> there is some clue. In /var/log/messages search for the date and
> >> time when the problem happened and in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old the
> >> last lines are a good candidate for an indication of your problem.
> >>
> >> What graphics hardware do you have? Are you using a proprietary
> >> graphics driver (ATI / Nvidia)?
> >
> > It's possible that my lockup problem is due to some kind of hardware
> > defect but I have no clue as to what
> > and how to check.  It's just that all my current operating systems
> > all work so well

All except 8.04 that is. I think I reread all your posts in this thread 
but couldn't find anything about your hardware. Can you tell us a bit 
more about your machine? I don't know about any specific problem, but 
maybe if you tell us what hardware you have someone has an idea. It is 
definitely not a general problem with Ubuntu because then there would be 
many many complaints about lockups on this list. So if it isn't a general 
problem of the software, it is the combination of software and hardware 
which doesn't work well. You can use the command

lspci -v > lspci.txt

in a terminal. That writes basic information about your hardware to the 
file lspci.txt in your home directory. You can then post the contents of 
that file here.

> When lockup occurs, there's no point in trying any of the suggested
> shortcuts because the keyboard is dead and I can't type anything. The
> monitor still shows the same display that was there when lockup
> occurred.

OK, at least that makes it clear that it is a lockup of the entire 
machine, not only the X server. But did you have a look at the log files 
I mentioned above? At least there is a possibility that there is 
something written to one of the files before the machine stops working.


Nils