10.04 troubleshoot system freeze

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 23:37 -0500, Doug wrote:
> 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.


They are doing something wrong with their download links. Here is a
working one:

http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/downloads/stresslinux_32bit_11.3.i686-0.6.105.iso.bz2



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Ioannis Vranos

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