Ubuntu 9.10 hangs frequently

[Pete]

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:07:32 -0500
From: MirJafar Ali<mirjafarali at gmail.com>
Subject: Ubuntu 9.10 Hangs Frequently
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Hello,

I am sorry for writing such a vague e-mail without telling you the exact
problems, because I lack
the deep knowledge about Linux Operating System.

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu-9.10 from 9.04 ( which are really good), but
now my system hangs
very frequently and the only way I can get to work is to shutdown and
restart the computer. On
an average it is 10-15 time a day. Upon hanging, I cann't type anything
except the mouse right
click works. I have to showdown the machine not using the system command but
manually poweroff
the machine.

I am not quite sure how to pose the question properly which might help
someone to pin-point the solution,
also I am not sure whether my decision to upgrade was correct one. The
feeling is similar to upgrading
from windows XP to Vista and then repenting.


Thanks.
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Hi,

I am by no means an expert but a similar thing happened to me about a month ago and to solve it it turned out that all I had to do was re-install ubuntu-minimal, as far as i know this can do no harm to try!

simply open a terminal (Applications / accessories / terminal) and type sudo apt-get reinstall ubuntu-minimal

if this does not solve the problem I am certain someone withe far more knowledge than myself on this list will be happy to help!!

please don't be put off by minor problems in my limited experience 9.10 (karmic) is a step forward from 9.04 and certainly better than any windows!

Good Luck!

regards

Pete