repeated system freezes starting today

[G.]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 6:06 AM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Unfortunately the system froze up again using Chrome and Firefox.
Having to unplug to reboot a frozen system 5 times in two days is just
beyond the pale.

Again thanks for your assistance and if you have any other ideas let me know.


garyk