My Ubuntu box is locking up?

[Rei Shinozuka]

On 05/24/2010 05:36 PM, Tom Browder wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 16:47, James Bensley<jwbensley at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> 1 minute of being on the desk top the machine will locks up and is
>> unrecoverable so I am forced to turn it off? This happens every time,
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> James, do you have another machine you can try to log in with?  I have
> found that sometimes a "locked up" box can be reached through ssh.
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> -Tom
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I agree with what Tom suggested.  If you can ssh in, you can at least do 
a proper shutdown.

The next thing I would try is to boot into memtest86 which is usually in 
the grub menu, or you can boot off a sysrescueCD disk.  The one time I 
had a series of hard lockups it was due to a bad memory stick.

-rei