repeated system freezes starting today

[Liam Proven]

On 26 February 2012 19:37, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 26 February 2012 19:02, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I received two separate updates.  One of them I noticed had some
>>> updates for Chrome.  Since I installed these updates both Chrome and
>>> Firefox have been freezing the whole system.  I have been forced to
>>> wait a long time and then sometimes I get a script failure notice.
>>> Sometimes I am forced to pull the plug to shut down.
>>>
>>> Sounds like it could be a flash problem.  Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> I am using Ubuntu 11.10 on a Samsung netbook with an external 21"
>>> monitor.  I do not know what other info might be useful.
>>
>> One of the most common answers is "keep updating and hope that it goes
>> away again soon".
>>
>> How are you doing the update? What version of Flash do you have? Are
>> you running 32-bit or 64-bit?

Hmm. That is the latest, AFAIK, and it's what I'm running as well,
with no problems at all.

Do you use the GUI updater or do it the CLI way with `apt-get dist-upgrade` ?

I don't know of any problems, but I guess there's no harm in some
generic troubleshooting steps.

I'd try:

Doing an fsck on all filesystems (as root, do a `touch /forcefsck` -
ditto if you have a separate /home fs: `sudo touch /home/forcefsck')

Clean out the APT cache &c:
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get purge

Check for & try to fix broken packages:
apt-get install -f

And finally do an
apt-get dist-upgrade -y

Then reboot and hope it goes away?

This is all just generic housekeeping, really...

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