Freezes Up. And again. And again. (not at boot, later on)

**penguinv** · May 15th, 2010

I have Ubuntu 9.10 on an AMD 32 machine with 1.2G RAM.

It freezes. I've been asking in #ubuntu for weeks but no luck.

The last 2 times a write from one hard drive to another was being done. This was today.
I'd previously suspected flash but it does not always happen in the browser. When it hangs and it's in a video I get an audio loop. I have been only using chrome and no longer using firefox (based on a suggestion).

Could it be that I have low HD space free? (There is data below.)

Could it be some tsr/init? (what is that called in linux?) (I give data on what is running below.)

Someone said to look at the system log file. (It is below.)

Thank you for helping!

ATTACHED.
3 things here: memory use, what's running now, syslog

tinyogen@tinyogen-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.0G 7.9G 688M 93% /
udev 597M 276K 596M 1% /dev
none 597M 872K 596M 1% /dev/shm
none 597M 200K 596M 1% /var/run
none 597M 0 597M 0% /var/lock
none 597M 0 597M 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sdb1 38G 35G 2.8G 93% /media/269023B4902388FF

tinyogen@tinyogen-desktop:~$ ps all
F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
0 0 992 1 20 0 1700 548 n_tty_ Ss+ tty4 0:00 /sbin/getty
0 0 999 1 20 0 1700 548 n_tty_ Ss+ tty5 0:00 /sbin/getty
0 0 1006 1 20 0 1700 544 n_tty_ Ss+ tty2 0:00 /sbin/getty
0 0 1007 1 20 0 1700 544 n_tty_ Ss+ tty3 0:00 /sbin/getty
0 0 1009 1 20 0 1700 544 n_tty_ Ss+ tty6 0:00 /sbin/getty
4 0 1325 1303 20 0 40248 31876 poll_s Ss+ tty7 11:39 /usr/bin/X
0 0 1612 1 20 0 1700 544 n_tty_ Ss+ tty1 0:00 /sbin/getty
0 1000 2490 2488 20 0 6184 3452 wait Ss pts/1 0:00 bash
0 1000 3382 2490 20 0 2424 824 - R+ pts/1 0:00 ps all

This is /var/sys/log after it froze and I hardbooted.
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May 15 05:33:36 tinyogen-desktop anacron[1641]: Job `cron.daily' terminated
May 15 05:33:36 tinyogen-desktop anacron[1641]: Normal exit (1 job run)
May 15 06:17:01 tinyogen-desktop CRON[2917]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
May 15 06:25:01 tinyogen-desktop CRON[2921]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily ))
May 15 06:29:30 tinyogen-desktop pulseaudio[1815]: ratelimit.c: 128 events suppressed
May 15 07:05:30 tinyogen-desktop pulseaudio[1815]: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!
May 15 07:05:30 tinyogen-desktop pulseaudio[1815]: alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_via82xx'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
May 15 07:05:30 tinyogen-desktop pulseaudio[1815]: alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.
May 15 07:17:01 tinyogen-desktop CRON[3118]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
May 15 07:28:46 tinyogen-desktop pulseaudio[1815]: ratelimit.c: 1 events suppressed
May 15 07:29:42 tinyogen-desktop pulseaudio[1815]: ratelimit.c: 1 events suppressed
May 15 07:30:01 tinyogen-desktop CRON[3196]: (root) CMD (start -q anacron ||

May 15 07:30:01 tinyogen-desktop anacron[3199]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2010-05-15
May 15 07:30:01 tinyogen-desktop anacron[3199]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)

**penguinv** · May 17th, 2010

Please someone help me.

is it the ALSA thing?

I'm stymied.

**4Orbs** · May 17th, 2010

You might be able to free up some space by entering in a terminal:

Code:

sudo apt-get clean

Your root partition appears to be filled to its limits.

**nhasian** · May 17th, 2010

where's your swap partition? did you check to see if your computer is overheating? are the fans RPMs okay? you can check your voltages, temperatures, and RPMs with the command:

Code:

sensors

you may need to install:

Code:

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors

to configure it to your system run:

Code:

sudo sensors-detect

**penguinv** · May 18th, 2010

Originally Posted by nhasian

where's your swap partition? did you check to see if your computer is overheating? are the fans RPMs okay? you can check your voltages, temperatures, and RPMs with the command:

Code:

sensors

you may need to install:

Code:

sudo apt-get install lm-sensors

to configure it to your system run:

Code:

sudo sensors-detect

--- doing the sensors-detect - did not tell me about any missing kernel drivers but did say: Found `Winbond W83697HF/F/HG Super IO Sensors' Success! (address 0x295, driver `w83627hf') but then tinyogen@tinyogen-desktop:~$ sensors said :"No sensors found! Make sure you loaded all the kernel drivers you need. Try sensors-detect to find out which these are." -- So I did it again and checked. Same

I also trashed some movies on the disk and did sudo apt-get clean (doing the command gave me no feedback, just a pause and a new prompt.

Someone in #ubuntu suggested: acpi=off apm=off
I don't know how to do that but I did this.
I found out that ACPI is Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. I went to system> preference> power management> AC and set them both to Never.

I'll give it some days and report back.

And thanks for the hints.

**penguinv** · May 21st, 2010

OK reporting back.

It did it again last night, while youtube played, the usual audio loop.

Here's the report including my 4 line log file...
http://ubuntu.pastebin.com/dWLKEHjQ

I'll copy 4 lines here:

May 21 10:53:52 tinyogen-desktop rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="730" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] rsyslogd was HUPed, type 'lightweight'.
May 21 10:55:30 tinyogen-desktop anacron[1727]: Job `cron.daily' terminated
May 21 10:55:30 tinyogen-desktop anacron[1727]: Normal exit (1 job run)

--
To my problem:
"One of these days, and it won't be long,
I'll look at my window any you'll be gone"

**gandaran** · May 21st, 2010

could be the /temp directory runs out of space when you play videos, when you get a freeze just delete all temporary files in /temp, if it resolves then you know that is the problem.

**sydbat** · May 21st, 2010

Can we get your system specs? That might help us help you. Please post the output of

Code:

sudo lshw

**Total AI** · May 21st, 2010

I had the same problem,I was running Ubuntu on a dell with a celeron processor,the processor didn't have enough memory cache to keep the system going,thus,a freeze up,worth a thought

**penguinv** · May 22nd, 2010

Three posts answered and some documentation provided.

Originally Posted by gandaran

Re: Freezes Up. And again. And again. (not at boot, later on)
could be the /temp directory runs out of space when you play videos, when you get a freeze just delete all temporary files in /temp, if it resolves then you know that is the problem.

When I freezes "I cant do anything." That is what I meant by freeze. But temp could be it. What can I do to tell?

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Originally Posted by Total AI

Re: Freezes Up. And again. And again.
I had the same problem,I was running Ubuntu on a dell with a celeron processor,the processor didn't have enough memory cache to keep the system going,thus,a freeze up,worth a thought

df -h (my memory) http://ubuntu.pastebin.com/9jPcntNF

I think you mean enough swap space. I thought that would show the swap but it didnt. Swap is around 479. I tried to make it double that but instead it gave me an extra partition of the same value, 481. I have 1.2G of RAM so what you said could be a good call.

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Originally Posted by sydbat

Can we get your system specs? That might help us help you. Please post the output of

Code:

sudo lshw

Here's my system hardware: http://ubuntu.pastebin.com/XmiVaLtB

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And my logfile: /var/log/syslog tinyogen, AMD, May 2010
http://ubuntu.pastebin.com/t18B7k0z

And... I thank you so much for participating with me.