No I certainly have not ruled out a hardware problem.  But the problems started 
after a couple of software updates.  
First Linuxcnc failed to start.  This update took care of that.  
http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git;a=commitdiff;h=317a357aa66de71deeddaa35024c47832714f29f
Then this locking up started.  Switching to Wheezy stopped the crashing, so I 
can't help but think the first place to look would be a software problem.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Kuzminsky" <[email protected]>
To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 10:53:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Freeze Up Using Ubuntu 10.04?

On 04/05/2017 08:30 AM, Todd                      Zuercher wrote:
> I still have (had) 2 machines running Linuxcnc on Ubuntu 10.04. One
> of which seems to be locked into staying with it because of Hardware
> limitations (an ISA interface card). In the past week one of those
> machines started freezing up while running Linuxcnc. Fortunately it
> wasn't the machine that can't run on Wheezy, so yesterday in
> frustration I installed the Wheezy ISO in a separate partition and
> that seems to have stopped the problem. My other old installation is
> still working happily. One of the main differences between the two
> machines is the one that was acting up has a Gladevcp, and the one
> that is still working has a Pyvcp. Where should I start looking for
> debugging info, to help find what is going wrong on the one machine?

It sounds like you have a machine that has been running for a long time 
and has been reliable and stable, and then it suddenly became unreliable 
and started crashing without you having made any software changes to it.

If my understanding of your situation is right, then it sounds like 
hardware is failing.

I would try running memtest86 on it for a day or two (find it in the 
Grub boot menu).  If that fails it's almost certainly bad RAM or CPU; if 
it does not fail it's probably got good RAM and CPU but there could 
still be other hardware problems not triggered by memtest.


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Sebastian Kuzminsky

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