reinstall ubuntu urgent

[Colin Law]

On 8 May 2012 11:51, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> On 08-05-12 11:12, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>
>> Joep L. Blom wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08-05-12 09:32, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 08/05/12 16:46, Nils Kassube wrote:
>
>
>> Well, IMHO the file system should be repaired after running fsck once.
>> If the file system becomes corrupt again after some time of using the
>> system, there must be something terribly wrong. To my understanding
>> there are two components involved, if there are file system errors, the
>> harddisk and the kernel. And because I haven't read of others having
>> similar file system problems with 11.10, my guess would be a disk
>> problem. OTOH, if there is no SMART indication of failures, it is of
>> course a hint that it is probably not the harddisk itself. Let's hope
>> that the problem is gone after reinstalling the system.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
> Nils thanks,
> I'm investigating the system further and I assume a video problem may be the
> culprit because when I us a Life-CD (from an USB stick) it sometimes
> inexplicably stops (2 times when displaying a screen-saver) and the only
> remedy is to restart.
> The video is an old NVIDA GEForce4 MX and just as I'm doing other things the
> screensaver hangs and the only thing I can do a hard restart.
> I think I'll clean that card it's in the system for > 4 years.

I also suggest running the memory test for a few hours in case it
picks anything up.  You can select it from the boot menu.  Running a
live CD/USB I think it will be available if you hit a key when the
keyboard icon appears at the bottom of the screen.

Colin