Ubuntu getting locked up

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Chuck Kuecker <ckuecker at ckent.org> wrote:
> 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?

Well, if your memory's good, that is good news. Many of the
screensavers use OpenGL, which the ordinary desktop does not if you
have effects turned off. Perhaps your graphics card is struggling with
OpenGL, or it has a problem?


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