Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

[colum . phillips]

 Hi I have been having similar problems with 7.1 locks up solid when trying to 
retrieve mail from talktalk or when trying to watch Utube items on Totem. 
problem seemed to start after installing the plugin required to view Utube. I 
have also been trying to configure send mail so this could be conflicting.
Any suggestions appreciated.

Regards

Colum.


 


 

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From: James Tyrrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: British Ubuntu Talk 
Sent: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:48
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing












2008/5/7 Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


Hi all,



Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to me in

the last couple of days, once on my desktop and now once on my laptop. I

think I was trying to watch a flash video in firefox the first time

although I'm not sure. The second time it was on trying to play a .ram

in totem. It was a hard crash, I couldn't do anything except do a hard

reboot, CTRL-Backspace and CTRL-ALT-F1 did not do anything.




Hey when you say crashed were you still able to move your mouse? Or was that a 
no go, I've had a similar problem where the system just locks, no keyboard 
commands do anything and while I can move the mouse the system needs a hard 
restart to fix the problem. Usually (suspiciously...) if I have OpenOffice 
open. 

?



I have hardy-proposed active btw.



Tom





Anyone else had similar issues?

James



 





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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

[Huw Selley]

Hi,

On 7 May 2008, at 13:24, James Tyrrell wrote:


> Sounds like a different issue to mine then, I was wondering for both  
> Thomas' and my sake, what is the best way of debugging and finding  
> the cause of these issues, I mean we can't just look at the terminal  
> output as the screen locks.

If you have another box handy you can always ssh into the 'frozen'  
machine (provided it's running an sshd (install openssh-server if  
not))  and check the system logs (in /var/log). Running 'dmesg' might  
also give you something more to go on.

Cheers
Huw

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

[Matthew Wild]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:48 PM, James Tyrrell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey when you say crashed were you still able to move your mouse? Or was that
> a no go, I've had a similar problem where the system just locks, no keyboard
> commands do anything and while I can move the mouse the system needs a hard
> restart to fix the problem. Usually (suspiciously...) if I have OpenOffice
> open.
>

I have seen similar from OpenOffice when using certain GTK themes. To
fix I removed openoffice.org-gtk, which results in an ugly
OpenOffice.org, but a stable computer. I have no idea if this problem
is still there though, I experienced it back with Feisty on my Dad's
laptop.

Matthew

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

[James Tyrrell]

2008/5/7 Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> James Tyrrell wrote:
> >
> >
> > 2008/5/7 Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to
> > me in
> > the last couple of days, once on my desktop and now once on my
> > laptop. I
> > think I was trying to watch a flash video in firefox the first time
> > although I'm not sure. The second time it was on trying to play a
> .ram
> > in totem. It was a hard crash, I couldn't do anything except do a
> hard
> > reboot, CTRL-Backspace and CTRL-ALT-F1 did not do anything.
> >
> >
> > Hey when you say crashed were you still able to move your mouse? Or
> > was that a no go, I've had a similar problem where the system just
> > locks, no keyboard commands do anything and while I can move the mouse
> > the system needs a hard restart to fix the problem. Usually
> > (suspiciously...) if I have OpenOffice open.
> >
> >
> >
> No, I wasn't able to move my mouse either, it was a complete freeze.
>

Sounds like a different issue to mine then, I was wondering for both Thomas'
and my sake, what is the best way of debugging and finding the cause of
these issues, I mean we can't just look at the terminal output as the screen
locks.

Where should one go after the reboot, or what tool should one set going in
the background to log the issue as it occurs, otherwise it's quite difficult
to write up a bug report. "System hangs" isn't that descriptive.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

[Thomas Ibbotson]

James Tyrrell wrote:
>
>
> 2008/5/7 Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to
> me in
> the last couple of days, once on my desktop and now once on my
> laptop. I
> think I was trying to watch a flash video in firefox the first time
> although I'm not sure. The second time it was on trying to play a .ram
> in totem. It was a hard crash, I couldn't do anything except do a hard
> reboot, CTRL-Backspace and CTRL-ALT-F1 did not do anything.
>
>
> Hey when you say crashed were you still able to move your mouse? Or 
> was that a no go, I've had a similar problem where the system just 
> locks, no keyboard commands do anything and while I can move the mouse 
> the system needs a hard restart to fix the problem. Usually 
> (suspiciously...) if I have OpenOffice open.
>  
>
>
No, I wasn't able to move my mouse either, it was a complete freeze.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

[matt]

Quoting Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to me in
> the last couple of days, once on my desktop and now once on my laptop. I
> think I was trying to watch a flash video in firefox the first time
> although I'm not sure. The second time it was on trying to play a .ram
> in totem. It was a hard crash, I couldn't do anything except do a hard
> reboot, CTRL-Backspace and CTRL-ALT-F1 did not do anything.
>
> I have hardy-proposed active btw.
>
> Tom
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It seems to be quite unstable, if I have about 4 apps open it just  
restarts itself, or at least tries to. It usually fails, needing a  
hard power off.


Mj





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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

[James Tyrrell]

2008/5/7 Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to me in
> the last couple of days, once on my desktop and now once on my laptop. I
> think I was trying to watch a flash video in firefox the first time
> although I'm not sure. The second time it was on trying to play a .ram
> in totem. It was a hard crash, I couldn't do anything except do a hard
> reboot, CTRL-Backspace and CTRL-ALT-F1 did not do anything.
>

Hey when you say crashed were you still able to move your mouse? Or was that
a no go, I've had a similar problem where the system just locks, no keyboard
commands do anything and while I can move the mouse the system needs a hard
restart to fix the problem. Usually (suspiciously...) if I have OpenOffice
open.


>
> I have hardy-proposed active btw.
>
> Tom
>

Anyone else had similar issues?

James
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[ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Hi all,

Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to me in 
the last couple of days, once on my desktop and now once on my laptop. I 
think I was trying to watch a flash video in firefox the first time 
although I'm not sure. The second time it was on trying to play a .ram 
in totem. It was a hard crash, I couldn't do anything except do a hard 
reboot, CTRL-Backspace and CTRL-ALT-F1 did not do anything.

I have hardy-proposed active btw.

Tom

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