repeated system freezes starting today

[Ernest Doub]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:26 PM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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Sounds similar to a problem I had recently involving Firefox and some add
on/extension incompatibilities after an update.
They all involved flash video.
Using Ubuntu 10.04 regularly updated and Firefox 10.0.2

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