[ubuntu-za] Random Freezes

[Tim Johnson]

  On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:58:54 +0200, David Nel  
<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've been having freezing problems on 10.10 32bit installation too.

I believe mine may be related to the first freeze that I had while I had  
an external HDD attached and mounted on a USB port.  Since then, when  
booting I have numerous error messages relating to this FreeAgent drive  
and the fact that it is still "mounted".  It isn't, nor is it physically  
connected anymore.  I cant get rid of the messages, nor unmount it as it  
is not mounted.

Any advice on this issue would be appreciated.  Anyway, I think that that  
may be causing an inordinate number/frequency of freezes requiring full  
rebooting (Keyboard, mouse etc all dead).

Tim


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