[ubuntu-za] Lucid crashing badly

[Helge]

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 12:01 +0200, Gavin wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Yes, I know Lucid is still in beta, however it should be stable by the
> weekend, however I'm not having much luck with it at the moment.
> 
> All is working well, however at random occasions the system just
> freezes, the screen goes blue or striped and NOTHING responds.
> 
> This happens at least 8 times during my working day.
> 
> Cannot restart X, cannot ctl/alt+ F1/2/3 to get a shell either, the
> ONLY thing I can do is kill the power. Not cool at all. :-(
> 
> Upon booting up and looking through the logs I cannot find anything
> that pertains to the crash that just happened.
> 
> I've changed nothing from the default install, the graphics drivers
> are still the open source ones although I've also tried the propriety
> one but that makes no difference.
> 
> The only apps running when this happens is Firefox, Evolution, Empathy
> and Terminal.
> 
> My system is as follows:-
> 
> Dell Studio XPS 16
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory
> Controller Hub (rev 07)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI
> Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
> 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB
> UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB
> UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB
> UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2
> EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
> Controller (rev 03)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
> Port 1 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
> Port 2 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
> Port 4 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
> Port 6 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB
> UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB
> UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB
> UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2
> EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI
> Controller (rev 03)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9488
> 01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
> 04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
> 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M
> Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
> 09:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
> 09:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro
> Host Adapter (rev 22)
> 09:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
> 09:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
> Adapter (rev 12)
> 09:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
> 
> Is anyone else experiencing anything similar, how can I troubleshoot
> this in more detail ??
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Gavin
> 

Gavin,

Is this beta-1, beta-2 or both?

- Helge