10.04 troubleshoot system freeze

[Doug]

On 02/16/2011 06:44 PM, Pongo A. Pan wrote:
> 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.
>
>
I must be missing something.  I downloaded the i686 3 month version and
ark unzipped it from 15.1 to 15.6 MiB, whereas the download page says
the file is 210.7 MB.
K3B says:

Detected: Iso9660 image
Filesize is 16.6 MiB, (different than declared volume size)
Volume size 212.5 MiB,

I stopped at this point, of course.
I've downloaded and burned things before without problems, so what
am I doing wrong?

(Using PCLOS at the moment.)

--doug



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