Ubuntu getting locked up

[Chuck Kuecker]

Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:06 PM, steve reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>   
>> Chuck Kuecker wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> OK - might have cured the beast - the cable for HDD1 was intermittent.
>>> Replaced it, booting now. Re-ran fsck from the live CD. It boots OK now.
>>>
>>> I'll be keeping an eye on this machine for a while.
>>>
>>> CK
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> well, maybe your on the right track, no sector errors on boot anyway.
>> you may want to choose the memory test option sometime soon when you
>> boot. let it run for a couple hours see if it throws any errors.  may
>> have a bad stick in there. that will definately cause the lockups your
>> encountering.
>>     
>
> /Strongly/ concur.
>   
I ran the memory test overnight - no problems found.

One thing that struck me this morning is that the lockups seem to occur 
when the screen saver on the Ubuntu machine kicks in. I tried to disable 
the screen saver, and found that the simple act of opening the screen 
saver window causes the lockup.

Trying to remove the older screen saver package I installed to get that 
nifty engine animation screen saver back - perhaps there was a good 
reason it was not included in the latest release?

Chuck Kuecker