10.04 troubleshoot system freeze

[Doug]

On 02/17/2011 12:14 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 23:37 -0500, Doug wrote:
>> On 02/16/2011 06:44 PM, Pongo A. Pan wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 13:05 -0500, J wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:00, scar<scar at drigon.com>   wrote:
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>>>>> Alan Pope @ 02/16/2011 09:28 AM:
>>>>>> On 16 February 2011 16:24, scar<scar at drigon.com>   wrote:
>>>>>>> please let me know what steps i can take.  thanks so much
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Run memtest from a live CD over night. Bad RAM accounts for quite a
>>>>>> few odd failures like this.
>>>> New != works
>>>>
>>>> Another thought aside from bad hardware, since you mention this
>>>> happens after a number of days... what else has changed?
>>>>
>>>> When you've run this in the past on older hardware, were you also
>>>> running an older version of Ubuntu or Zoneminder or any other
>>>> software?
>>>>
>>>> heh... this is a rabbit hole :)  but my money is on bad ram as was
>>>> suggested, or a memory leak in some program you're running.
>>>>
>>> Something we do here for every new computer *before* we trust it to do
>>> anything vital:
>>>
>>> http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/
>>>
>>> A really nice collection of testing stuff on a livecd.
>>>
>>>
>> FOLLOWUP:
>>
>> A followup to my previous email about this website.
>>
>> There is something wrong with the stresslinux.org site.  I tried to
>> download the file (number 34) using Windows7 and had the same
>> sort of problems as on Linux.  For the record, I use the same
>> email program (Thunderbird) and the same browser (Firefox) on
>> both systems, which are on different computers.
>>
>> First:  Many of the d/l tries simply go nowhere.  You get a blank
>> browser screen, with "done" at the bottom.
>>
>> Next: Sometimes you get a download window.  (It looks the same
>> in Linux and Windows.)  Then the d/l starts, and it says it will d/l
>> 200 odd MB and take 14~ minutes (or whatever exact numbers)
>> and then after 13 or 20 MB or so, it just stops, and the d/l
>> window closes, as if it is done.
>>
>> Third:  If you go to the site, it gives you an opportunity to register.
>> (For what, I'm not sure.)  So I did.  They take your email address and
>> promise an email.  The email never comes.  (This is about 3 hours
>> or more ago.)  At the same time, you get to log in, with the
>> user name and password you have chosen, but all you get is a
>> chance to write a history of yourself.  I didn't.
>>
>> If this isn't a scam, then there is something seriously wrong here.
>
> They are doing something wrong with their download links. Here is a
> working one:
>
> http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/downloads/stresslinux_32bit_11.3.i686-0.6.105.iso.bz2
>
>
>
I don't think so.  This time, the d/l window opens, it says 0 bytes, and 
that's it.
No pretense of downloading anything at all.  Tried twice.  Then I tried 
it in
Windows, and had the same sort of experience I originally had in both Linux
and Windows--after 3 tries, a d/l window opened, it downloaded 2.9 MB 
and quit.

It's too bad--this looks like a very useful program, if it really can be 
obtained.
I'm big on diagnostic routines, but I guess I'll have to pass on this one.

(I read your other post--I think it was yours--where you said that the 
size is
wrong.  I suspect that if you burn whatever you downloaded, it won't work.)

If they ever send me the email they promised, I will report back to them
what I have observed.

--doug

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