Ubuntu freezes randomly

[steve]

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Tony Arnold wrote:
| Pat,
|
| Aaron wrote:
|> Pat Brown wrote:
|>> I have a problem with Ubuntu freezing for no apparent reason. It's not
|>> like I'm running any RAM intensive programs - this morning I had
|>> Konquerer open, Thunderbird and OpenOffice. Konquerer was on The
Weather
|>> Network looking at the long range forecast, and the whole system froze.
|>> I can't do anything except a hard reboot. I can't even open a terminal.
|>> I'm fully patched. I'm on a a Compaq Presario C700, with 512 MB and1.73
|>> Ghz. Even when it's not freezing it often slows down and the screen
will
|>> gray out for several seconds before coming back. When it's in this
state
|>> I can't do anything.
|
| Just a wild guess, but do you have a swap file? You can check by running
|
| 	swapon -s
|
| in a terminal.
|
| Regards,
| Tony.

have you verified its not a hardware issue or overheating?  sounds alot
like what happens when a laptop I have overheats.  Checked
/var/log/messages?




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