System freeze (Nvidia / Flash)

[Ric Moore]

On 02/12/2012 06:29 AM, Thomas F. Duellmann wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 05:12 +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Thomas F. Duellmann<t.duellmann at gmx.de>  wrote:
>>> Thanks for you fast response!
>>>
>>> Unfortunately even that didn't work.
>>> I tried nearly all key combinations with Strg + Alt but nothing
>>> happened.
>>> After a (quite long) while the screen turned black and the message
>>> "Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done." appeared.
>>> After several minutes of waiting I did a hard reset.
>>>
>>> While being frozen the system responded to ping requests from another
>>> pc. So the system itself seemed to run properly. Something seems to
>>> 'mess up' the X-Server or anything else UI-related.
>>> Can anybody give me a hint how to investigate the source of this problem
>>> or would you recommend to just do a fresh install?
>>
>> I think it is an NVIDIA driver problem. The driver that comes with
>> Ubuntu 11.10 (280.13), supports your graphics card.
>>
>> If you use an older Ubuntu version, try downloading version NVIDIA
>> driver 285.0509.
>
>
> I just uninstalled the 290.10 driver and installed the recommended one
> via jockey ("Additional Drivers") which is version 280.13.
> Unfortunately that didn't solve the problem. Opened up several youtube
> videos and clicked around and eventually my system, respectively the UI
> locked up again :(
> I fear that there's a problem between flash(player) and NVIDIA driver. I
> just can remember that this must have started after upgrading to 11.10
> and removing those sevenmachines (PPA) flash player version and
> installing the one from ubuntu-repos.

I'm on youtube right now, to see the Celtic video, and nothing happens. 
I just have a black screen where I should be seeing the damn video. Must 
have been the latest updates. Damn... Ok, using synaptic to re-install 
adobe flash. Well see if it was a kernel change that blew it up. I'll 
restart firefox when it's done.

OK! That was it! Just reinstall flashplugin-downloader ! Enjoy! Ric

Here's a good test subject!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7zEY7RFH1s&feature=related