reasons why Ubuntu 9.10 crashes so frequently

[Steve Flynn]

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On 02/03/10 23:45, steve reilly wrote:

> thats pretty much a stab in the dark trying to answer that question 
> without more info.  hardware?, ubuntu version?, logs?

Yup - however the easiest thing the OP can check is that his ram is
good. Without ascertaining that, you can read logs for hours and still
not be able to determine the cause of the issue.

OP is on 9.10

> ive been using different flavors of ubuntu or debian for no less than 5 
> years on dozens of computers and never experienced a crash due to 
> *ubuntu*.  I would check your hardware as suggested above, most often 
> these problems are hardware related. i smell a 5 letter word that begins 
> with t.

Linux since 1996, roughly. Experienced hundreds of kernel panics, core
dumps, oops'es and just plain weirdness.

Not sure what the 5 letter word beginning with T is though.

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Steve Flynn
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