10.04 troubleshoot system freeze

[Pongo A. Pan]

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 13:05 -0500, J wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:00, scar <scar at drigon.com> wrote:
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> > Alan Pope @ 02/16/2011 09:28 AM:
> >> On 16 February 2011 16:24, scar <scar at drigon.com> wrote:
> >>> please let me know what steps i can take.  thanks so much
> >>>
> >> Run memtest from a live CD over night. Bad RAM accounts for quite a
> >> few odd failures like this.
> New != works
> 
> Another thought aside from bad hardware, since you mention this
> happens after a number of days... what else has changed?
> 
> When you've run this in the past on older hardware, were you also
> running an older version of Ubuntu or Zoneminder or any other
> software?
> 

> heh... this is a rabbit hole :)  but my money is on bad ram as was
> suggested, or a memory leak in some program you're running.
> 

Something we do here for every new computer *before* we trust it to do
anything vital: 

http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/

A really nice collection of testing stuff on a livecd.


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