repeated system freezes starting today

[G.]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Did all that, will see how it goes.  Last night it froze up during a
playback of an avi video.

I use the GUI updater.

Thanks for the assistance!


garyk