[Jaunty and Interpid] Random system crashes.

[dlamer]

Hi,

I need some help how to diagnose why my system randomly crash. The symptoms are that everything freeze, can't generate any response from the system. Mouse pointer freeze, keyboard is not responding and every animations (like cursor flashing, animated icons, flash on web pages) stops. Only hard power off is working (holding power button for few seconds).I did a memtest for few hours and there was not any errors.

When this occurs ? For example:
- reading web pages in firefox
- navigating in Nautilus
- moving or resizeing windows
- installing packages in synaptic
So I don't think it's related with any special package or program.

Hardware:
- laptop with 1,7 GHz Intel (i think Celeron) processor
- integrated VIA S3 UniChrome graphic card
- 512 MB DDR1 (64MB reserved for graphic card)
- WiFi chipset with kernel module iwl2200

What logs files to read or paste here ?

Thanks for any help.

[Bartosz Kosiorek (gang65)]

Please attach your Xorg.0.log file.
It is located at /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[dlamer (l-wojtus)]

Please take a look

[Bartosz Kosiorek (gang65)]

Please change /etc/xorg.conf file in Driver section from "openchrome" to "vesa". Is it helps?

Please try run Ubuntu LiveCD and check if this problem exist in that Live CD.

Maybe it is hardware problem. Check the temperature of the motherboard/processor.
Also hard drive can have bad sectors.

[dlamer (l-wojtus)]

when i changed to "vesa" it was even worse. GDM won't start at all.

This issue exist in live CD's also ( kubuntu , xubuntu )

It's possible that it's hardware but ... I dont think its temperature ... I'm sure cool fan works fine and I see that's is slowing down when I do nothing and rasing up when doing something ( firefox, system update etc.). The worst thing ever is that previously installed here Windows XP worked without any problems ...

[José Ernesto Dávila Pantoja (josernestodavila)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!