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.
>
>
FOLLOWUP:

A followup to my previous email about this website.

There is something wrong with the stresslinux.org site.  I tried to
download the file (number 34) using Windows7 and had the same
sort of problems as on Linux.  For the record, I use the same
email program (Thunderbird) and the same browser (Firefox) on
both systems, which are on different computers.

First:  Many of the d/l tries simply go nowhere.  You get a blank
browser screen, with "done" at the bottom.

Next: Sometimes you get a download window.  (It looks the same
in Linux and Windows.)  Then the d/l starts, and it says it will d/l
200 odd MB and take 14~ minutes (or whatever exact numbers)
and then after 13 or 20 MB or so, it just stops, and the d/l
window closes, as if it is done.

Third:  If you go to the site, it gives you an opportunity to register.
(For what, I'm not sure.)  So I did.  They take your email address and
promise an email.  The email never comes.  (This is about 3 hours
or more ago.)  At the same time, you get to log in, with the
user name and password you have chosen, but all you get is a
chance to write a history of yourself.  I didn't.

If this isn't a scam, then there is something seriously wrong here.

--doug

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