System crashes at random intervals.

Liam Wilson liamwilson93 at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Feb 16 17:09:34 UTC 2009


Hey, I've been using Ubuntu for some time now, (Since Gutsy) and I'm
currently running 8.04.2, and I used to run it under a dual-boot with
windows XP, but after my hard drive failed, I nuked it and Put Ubuntu on
it as my only OS. One problem I have had, and am still having, is that
it freezes at random intervals, mostly when the mouse is used. (Never
whilst typing though). What happens is that the mouse and keyboard don't
respond, the sound sticks, and there is no activity on the screen. It
just hangs there. I read on the Ubuntu forums that it is usually a
problem with X, so I followed this [1] guide, but to no avail, it still
occurs. Please find attached a copy of the output from  
'lshw -short',
'etc/X11/xorg.conf', and
'top'

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as it's a real problem now, not
just for me, but for all users of this computer. It never happened in
windows;

Thanks in advance, 
Liam Wilson

[1]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=201964

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# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
#   sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Generic Keyboard"
	Driver		"kbd"
	Option		"XkbRules"	"xorg"
	Option		"XkbModel"	"pc105"
	Option		"XkbLayout"	"gb"
	Option		"XkbOptions"	"altwin:meta_win"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"CorePointer"
	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	Option		"UseFBDev"	"true"
	Driver		"fglrx"
	Option 		"RenderAccel" 	"false"
	Option 		"MergedFB" 	"off"
	Option 		"NoAccel" 	"true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
	Defaultdepth	24
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier	"Default Layout"
  screen "Default Screen"
EndSection
Section "Module"
	Load		"glx"
#	Load		"dri"
EndSection
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H/W path                   Device     Class       Description
=============================================================
                                      system      Ei 314
/0                                    bus         RC4107MA-RS2H
/0/0                                  memory      128KiB BIOS
/0/4                                  processor   Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20
/0/4/b                                memory      32KiB L1 cache
/0/4/d                                memory      2MiB L2 cache
/0/4/0.1                              processor   Logical CPU
/0/4/0.2                              processor   Logical CPU
/0/5                                  processor   CPU
/0/5/c                                memory      32KiB L1 cache
/0/5/e                                memory      2MiB L2 cache
/0/5/0.1                              processor   Logical CPU
/0/5/0.2                              processor   Logical CPU
/0/22                                 memory      1GiB System Memory
/0/22/0                               memory      512MiB DIMM
/0/22/1                               memory      512MiB DIMM
/0/22/2                               memory      DIMM [empty]
/0/22/3                               memory      DIMM [empty]
/0/100                                bridge      Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge
/0/100/1                              bridge      RS480 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1/5                            display     RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200]
/0/100/1/5.1                          display     ATI Technologies Inc
/0/100/12                             storage     IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controlle
/0/100/13                             bus         IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
/0/100/13/1                usb1       bus         OHCI Host Controller
/0/100/13/1/1                         generic     USB Keyboard
/0/100/13/1/2                         generic     Lexmark Z600 Series
/0/100/13/1/3                         generic     PS/2+USB Mouse
/0/100/13.1                           bus         IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
/0/100/13.1/1              usb2       bus         OHCI Host Controller
/0/100/13.1/1/1                       generic     Optical Mouse
/0/100/13.2                           bus         IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
/0/100/13.2/1              usb3       bus         EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/13.2/1/8            scsi2      generic     Mass Storage Device
/0/100/13.2/1/8/0.0.0      /dev/sda   disk        1015MB USB SD Reader
/0/100/13.2/1/8/0.0.0/0    /dev/sda   disk        1015MB 
/0/100/13.2/1/8/0.0.0/0/1  /dev/sda1  volume      968MiB Windows FAT volume
/0/100/13.2/1/8/0.0.1      /dev/sdb   disk        USB CF Reader
/0/100/13.2/1/8/0.0.1/0    /dev/sdb   disk        
/0/100/13.2/1/8/0.0.2      /dev/sdc   disk        USB SM Reader
/0/100/13.2/1/8/0.0.2/0    /dev/sdc   disk        
/0/100/13.2/1/8/0.0.3      /dev/sdd   disk        USB MS Reader
/0/100/13.2/1/8/0.0.3/0    /dev/sdd   disk        
/0/100/14                             bus         IXP SB400 SMBus Controller
/0/100/14.1                           storage     IXP SB400 IDE Controller
/0/100/14.1/0              ide0       bus         IDE Channel 0
/0/100/14.1/0/0            /dev/hda   disk        80GB MAXTOR STM380215A
/0/100/14.1/0/0/1          /dev/hda1  volume      72GiB EXT3 volume
/0/100/14.1/0/0/2                     volume      2212MiB Extended partition
/0/100/14.1/0/0/2/5        /dev/hda5  volume      2212MiB Linux swap / Solaris p
/0/100/14.1/0/1            /dev/hdb   disk        41GB QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS40.0
/0/100/14.1/0/1/1          /dev/hdb1  volume      36GiB EXT3 volume
/0/100/14.1/0/1/2                     volume      1647MiB Extended partition
/0/100/14.1/0/1/2/5        /dev/hdb5  volume      1647MiB Linux swap / Solaris p
/0/100/14.1/1              ide1       bus         IDE Channel 1
/0/100/14.1/1/1            /dev/hdd   disk        IDE-DVD DVDRW8801
/0/100/14.3                           bridge      IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
/0/100/14.4                           bridge      IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
/0/100/14.4/5                         multimedia  CM8738
/0/100/14.4/7              eth0       network     RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+

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top - 17:07:08 up 57 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.07
Tasks: 114 total,   1 running, 112 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.2%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    774200k total,   712812k used,    61388k free,    23192k buffers
Swap:  3951908k total,        0k used,  3951908k free,   393600k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 6184 liam      20   0 88376  19m  11m S    1  2.6   0:02.32 gnome-terminal     
    1 root      20   0  2844 1688  544 S    0  0.2   0:01.22 init               
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0        
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.12 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    6 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1        
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 ksoftirqd/1        
    8 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1         
    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 events/0           
   10 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 events/1           
   11 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper            
   46 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.06 kblockd/0          
   47 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 kblockd/1          
   50 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid    


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