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I have to wonder if there is something wrong with the disk, because after the last crash (Sunday) it won't boot, and it doesn't find ANY partitions on that drive. gparted can't see any partitions,...

So, in top, I have it sorted by process state, and the "D" processes are first in the list. At the time when it froze, they are:


krcupreemptd
kswapd0
chkmsg
cron
...

Ok, gave up waiting for it to die with the live CD, so I rebooted back in my "normal" setup and ran "top" in a terminal window. I wasn't able to check it during the "about to lockup" period, but I...

I wonder if there's any way to do that without looping and re-running ps...
The problem is, by the time the machine starts having the problem, it won't start any new processes, so the loop will come...

Another day, another attempt...booted with 8.10 desktop live cd. Nothing interesting in the logs from crash around 4am. Load average was around 11.4 this time. Should note that it's not memory -...

On that spinlock/irq isue, how would I even know if that's related to my problem?

We're kind of shotgun debugging here. What I'd really like to do is to find a way to capture what's going on with...

NIC:

00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)

It's built-in on the motherboard.
If you think it would make a difference, I can disable it in the BIOS and install an older...

Oh, I should have mentioned, I'm using the xforcevesa kernel boot option, because xorg doesn't like the video card - it doesn't let me set up a resolution greater than 800x600. With xforcevesa, it...

I ran memtest first; it went through two complete passes with no errors.
What's weird to me is that it happens after hours of idle time. Literally nothing is going on with the machine, and then...

More analysis...wish I weren't the only one replying on this thread.

So, now I'm tracking /var/log/kern.log, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, dmesg and ps. I've run through this four times so far. The...

motherboard turned out to have blown capacitors.
but I replaced it and still get the problem. Started a new thread.

Another symptom I've noticed: very high system load average - it's at 9.31 now. Can't check output of ps because I can't start a terminal in Gnome. Dropped back to tty with ctrl-alt-F1, and I can't...

Here's the latest output from dmesg, which was almost immediately before the last crash. I trimmed it down to comply with the forum limit - this is the latest portion.

I'm running 8.10 on a box that had been shelved for a while (blown capacitors on the mobo and I didn't have cash/time to replace & fix). Now it has brand new mobo, CPU and memory.

Occasionally,...

BUMP again!

Come one, somebody? Does anybody even have a suggestion for where to LOOK? It won't even stay up and running for an hour...

BUMP!

Help, anybody? At least a pointer for where to look for what's broken?

My ubuntu 8 system started randomly locking up/freezing about a month ago. No hardware changes or anything like that. This was with the 2.6.24-24-386 kernel. I switched to rt and added "acpi=off"...

I did, but I still only have 640x480 available in that resolution chooser.

Ack, I have too many machines in rotation. :confused:

This one is actually still on Dapper (have not successfully upgraded to Hardy because the network connection keeps crapping out)...

Anyway,...

I seem to have the opposite problem from some other folks (as usual)...

I installed VirtualBox, and in the virtual machine I installed Fedora 9. The native display on the machine is a small flat...

I need to use a VPN to connect to my company's network (and they don't support a Linux client). Theoretically it should be possible to configure the routing on my Ubuntu box, so that it goes through...

I'm having trouble with a USB wireless network adapter, but it's not a networking problem per se (hence the post here in the Hardware forum)...

I have an old Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop running...

kevdog, I get varying results from iwlist scan regardless of proximity...

My wifi router is in a small closet off my "office". Ok, I'll admit that there's a chance for interference, because in a...

Kevdog, I have a problem I don't see mentioned here yet.

Each time I run iwlist the output differs. Let's say there are eight wifi networks I can pick up from my living room: mine plus seven of...

When I search for a wireless SSID with iwlist, sometimes it shows up and sometimes it doesn't. Anybody know why that might be?

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I have a laptop running Dapper (6.06),...