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dodderer
December 4th, 2009, 07:10 AM
Acer veriton 5000 pentium4 1.7mhz 2Gb ram. double booted win2k
I had no trouble upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 to 9.04. For some reason 9.04 would not upgrade to 9.10 so I installed from disc, with minor hics. Now works well but randomly hangs with no warning and I have to switch-off and restart to continue. Very annoying. I do not get any error alert it just hangs and when rebooted carries on quite unperturbed. How do I fix??
Additional info.
on booting in recovery mode got following::
[ 14.7068851] end_request: i/o error,dev.sr0, sector 1380592

Mr Nemo
December 4th, 2009, 07:24 AM
Seems like there may be something wrong with your harddrive. I suggest running memtest. I believe that 'i/o error,dev.sr0, sector 1380592' is in regards to your drive. Sorry if that isn't the best advice but im fairly new to ubuntu still.

dodderer
December 9th, 2009, 09:34 AM
thanks nemo more suggestions please

dodderer
December 10th, 2009, 01:58 AM
still happening. help please

MG37221
December 10th, 2009, 02:36 AM
Happens to me all the time though usually during a Firefox session. I think it's a problem with 9.10. I tried going back to 9.04 (which was perfect) but the install updated everything on my /home partition, which resides on its own drive. I suppose I could do it using a brand new /home but without all my stuff, my hands would be sorta tied.

dodderer
December 23rd, 2009, 09:15 AM
reinstalled but stillhaving the same trouble:(:(:(

GeorgeOfTheBush
December 23rd, 2009, 09:50 AM
Though I like Ubuntu, I am fed up with it because of the frequent hangs. Any suggestions would help me as well.

dodderer
January 18th, 2010, 06:47 AM
Since my original post of 4/12/09 I have re-installed ubuntu 9.10 from a newly burnt disc made from a new download of ubuntu 9.10 but IamStill getting random hang-ups. I have a gut-feeling that this happens most often when browsing in firefox 3.5.7 . Is firefox known to have conflicts with ubuntu or do I bark up the wrong tree?

oxo2oxo
January 18th, 2010, 10:08 AM
I am also getting the same problem everything stays on screen but cannot action anything with the mouse. I thought it was just firefox, but i have yet to get to the end of a Unison syncronisation as my system hangs or even worse has a complete crash

tombaugh
January 18th, 2010, 03:24 PM
Exactly the same problem here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1378662 I'll subscribe to this one.

mörgæs
January 18th, 2010, 04:10 PM
Do you get the same problem with a 9.04 Live CD?

http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.04/

dodderer
February 8th, 2010, 07:33 AM
SOLVED I reinstalled 8.04 no more hangs
Though I liked 9.10, I was fed up with it because of the frequent hangs. It does seem to be faster too