hardy random freeze
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linux (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I posted this problem in bug number 204996, but my hardware differs from the original poster so I am posting independently.
I have a desktop computer with the following hardware:
Gigabyte 7ZXE Mobo
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
1024 Mb RAM
ATI Radeon 8500
SMC1255TX PCI Ethernet Adapter
WDC WD2500JB, ATA Hard drive
SONY DVD RW DRU-720A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM
SONY CD-RW CRX320E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM
This computer runs fine with Fiesty Fawn (Kubuntu 7.04). It is my personal web server so I leave it on for months at a time, only shutting it down to swap hardware. It will freeze within minutes when booted from the Ubuntu Hardy LiveCD or from a Hardy hard disk install. By "freeze" I mean that it is possible to move the mouse pointer but not to use the keyboard. CTRL-ALT-DEL and CTRL-ALT-Backspace do nothing.
There does not seem to be any pattern to the crashes. Once it will freeze while I'm browsing with Firefox. The next time while I'm trying to read log files. The next time while it's sitting there doing nothing.
I posted my dmesg, lspci and version here:
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I posted the logs from a crash here:
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Here are the events leading up to one crash (ten minutes of uptime):
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And here is the next boot (58 seconds of uptime!):
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I installed Fedora 9 on this same machine (different 40Gb hard drive) and have had no problem with freezes in over an hour of uptime. This is much better than the ~10 minute uptime I was getting with Hardy.
I know it uses a newer kernel and patches (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 vs. 2.6.24-4.6-generic for Ubuntu Hardy) so perhaps the fix is in there somewhere?