Public bug reported:
It started 2 hours ago, it's really weird!
I left my Desktop machine, with wired internet, for an half an hour or
so.
The screensaver was on and seem like it had freezed, moving the mouse,
touching a key, pressing ctrl+alt+backspace, ctrl+alt+delete...didn't
work !!
I did a hard reboot.
First time I rebooted, the progressbar stopped about 12% in the boot up
and the system freezed.
The only way I could start up my system was to boot up with the install CD and
then choose "Start up with first harddrive".
When up and running, the User switcher applet was disabled the first time. The
second time it came up properly though.
Second time I tried, it stopped at the Grub screen (which I have
enabled).
Third time, I didn't even get to BIOS boot screen. All black screen and
no harddrive activity.
I have this system:
Processor:AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Motherboard: ASUSTek A8NE-FM
Videocard: Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT
Kernel: 2.6.27-9-generic
Ubuntu: 8.10 Interpid Ibex
I have installed the Nvidia BETA video driver 180.06, but I dont think
this is the problem ?
It could be an issue with the screensaver, as it was active when it happened.
I now have disabled the screensaver, hope it works :/
I've never had this issue before, every version of Ubuntu has always
been extremely robust and friendly :)
But it would be nice to know which logfile is the right one to diagnose this ??
I've attached /var/log/kern.log for inspection.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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System freezes, dies and won't boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309377
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