reinstall ubuntu urgent

[NoOp]

On 05/08/2012 03:51 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
> On 08-05-12 11:12, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> Joep L. Blom wrote:
>>> On 08-05-12 09:32, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>> On 08/05/12 16:46, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 
>> Well, IMHO the file system should be repaired after running fsck once.
>> If the file system becomes corrupt again after some time of using the
>> system, there must be something terribly wrong. To my understanding
>> there are two components involved, if there are file system errors, the
>> harddisk and the kernel. And because I haven't read of others having
>> similar file system problems with 11.10, my guess would be a disk
>> problem. OTOH, if there is no SMART indication of failures, it is of
>> course a hint that it is probably not the harddisk itself. Let's hope
>> that the problem is gone after reinstalling the system.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
> Nils thanks,
> I'm investigating the system further and I assume a video problem may be 
> the culprit because when I us a Life-CD (from an USB stick) it sometimes 
> inexplicably stops (2 times when displaying a screen-saver) and the only 
> remedy is to restart.
> The video is an old NVIDA GEForce4 MX and just as I'm doing other things 
> the screensaver hangs and the only thing I can do a hard restart.
> I think I'll clean that card it's in the system for > 4 years.
> Joep
> 
> 

I'd also check for CPU thermal temperature. I have a backup system where
the desktop would freeze at 52C. It would hit that temp whenever the CPU
pegged at ~100% for a short time (apt-xapian-index comes to mind), and
I'd need to power down via the power button. I finally found some time &
tore it apart the other day, cleaned the CPU etc., applied new thermal
grease, fired it back up & it's been rock solid since.