[ubuntu-za] Random freezes

[frans]

just to be on the safe side do a disk check, as bad sectors can also be 
responsible for system freezes

On 10/12/21 10:48 AM, David Nel wrote:
> My 10.04 install was a dream compared to the 10.10 freezing issue. I 
> still have 10.04 installed on my laptop and it has yet to freeze on 
> me. Currently my 10.10 has frozen 5 times this week so far. I am 
> running on the 2.6.35-24-generic kernel with official Nvidia drivers 
> installed. I will look in to installing a later kernel from the 
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline 
> <http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline> site.
>
> I see it has .deb files. Do I just download those and install them? 
> I'm assuming I install the headers first and then the image .deb file?
>
>
>
> On 21 December 2010 10:37, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cairnsww at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:58 AM, David Nel
>     <david.uberdiablo at gmail.com <mailto:david.uberdiablo at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
>     > Hey guys,
>     >
>     > I am experiencing random freezes on my 10.10 64bit installation
>     lately. Has
>     > anyone else been having issues with this?
>     > I've seen quite a bit of posts on the forums regarding this
>     matter (even
>     > with 10.04, which for some reason worked fine for me).
>     > I think it's a kernel problem to be honest but not sure if I can
>     install a
>     > more reliable kernel. Has anyone found some form of a work
>     around yet?
>
>     I am running 10.04 and was having a lot of problems with "random
>     freezes" too. However, I have such faith in Ubuntu that I was
>     convinced it must be a hardware problem, and sure enough it turned out
>     that I had bad seating of one of the memory modules. I have not had
>     problems since fixing that. My 10.10 machine has not frozen.
>
>     Of course this does not mean that there isn't a kernel problem!
>
>     Bill
>
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