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Ubuntu keeps freezing

Asked by sean talbert

Ubuntu freezes several times daily. It doesn't seem to matter what I'm doing, or even not doing (the screen saver can be on), it randomly freezes. When it freezes, the video stops, I get lines across the screen, it then gets worse and worse until the screen is just dots. Sometimes when it freezes the audio will start making horrible static sounds. After it freezes I have to do a hard reboot using the power button.

Here are some pics on Photobucket of what the video does:
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee418/sonictree2002/Ubuntu/1.jpg
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee418/sonictree2002/Ubuntu/2.jpg
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee418/sonictree2002/Ubuntu/3.jpg

My system:
Dell Dimension E521
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+
2GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE (I'm running the NVidia driver)
Ubuntu Desktop 10.04.1 32-bit (with all updates)

I've read through the forums and tried some of the fixes, but nothing has worked. I'm not too familiar with Ubuntu/Linux, so if you need info/logs, please let me know how to get it. Thanks for your help.

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sean talbert (sonictree2002) said : 		#1

Here is some log info from the Log File Viewer messages log just before it froze this morning:

Oct 27 09:39:01 Neuromancer kernel: [ 12.598853] type=1505 audit(1288190341.556:5): operation="profile_load" pid=903 name="/usr/share/gdm/guest-session/Xsession"
Oct 27 09:39:01 Neuromancer kernel: [ 12.600761] type=1505 audit(1288190341.560:6): operation="profile_replace" pid=904 name="/sbin/dhclient3"
Oct 27 09:39:01 Neuromancer kernel: [ 12.601056] type=1505 audit(1288190341.560:7): operation="profile_replace" pid=904 name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action"
Oct 27 09:39:01 Neuromancer kernel: [ 12.601218] type=1505 audit(1288190341.560:8): operation="profile_replace" pid=904 name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script"
Oct 27 09:39:01 Neuromancer kernel: [ 12.605574] type=1505 audit(1288190341.564:9): operation="profile_load" pid=905 name="/usr/bin/evince"
Oct 27 09:39:01 Neuromancer kernel: [ 12.611104] type=1505 audit(1288190341.568:10): operation="profile_load" pid=905 name="/usr/bin/evince-previewer"
Oct 27 09:39:01 Neuromancer kernel: [ 12.613449] type=1505 audit(1288190341.572:11): operation="profile_load" pid=905 name="/usr/bin/evince-thumbnailer"
Oct 27 09:39:01 Neuromancer kernel: [ 12.813172] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
Oct 27 09:39:02 Neuromancer kernel: [ 13.156106] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/input/input8
Oct 27 09:39:02 Neuromancer kernel: [ 13.492194] input: HDA NVidia Line In at Ext Rear Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/sound/card0/input9
Oct 27 09:39:02 Neuromancer kernel: [ 13.492299] input: HDA NVidia Mic at Ext Front Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/sound/card0/input10
Oct 27 09:39:02 Neuromancer kernel: [ 13.492366] input: HDA NVidia Mic at Ext Rear Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/sound/card0/input11
Oct 27 09:39:02 Neuromancer kernel: [ 13.492433] input: HDA NVidia Speaker at Ext Rear Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/sound/card0/input12
Oct 27 09:39:02 Neuromancer kernel: [ 13.492502] input: HDA NVidia Speaker at Ext Rear Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/sound/card0/input13
Oct 27 09:39:02 Neuromancer kernel: [ 13.492570] input: HDA NVidia Speaker at Ext Rear Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/sound/card0/input14
Oct 27 09:39:02 Neuromancer kernel: [ 13.492642] input: HDA NVidia Speaker at Ext Rear Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/sound/card0/input15
Oct 27 09:39:02 Neuromancer kernel: [ 13.492711] input: HDA NVidia HP Out at Ext Front Jack as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/sound/card0/input16
Oct 27 09:39:02 Neuromancer kernel: [ 13.516705] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC7] enabled at IRQ 16
Oct 27 09:39:02 Neuromancer kernel: [ 13.516729] nvidia 0000:00:05.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APC7] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
Oct 27 09:39:02 Neuromancer kernel: [ 13.516743] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:00:05.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem
Oct 27 09:39:02 Neuromancer kernel: [ 13.517058] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 195.36.24 Thu Apr 22 09:18:20 PDT 2010
Oct 27 09:39:03 Neuromancer kernel: [ 14.805174] b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
Oct 27 09:39:03 Neuromancer kernel: [ 14.805178] b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
Oct 27 09:39:03 Neuromancer kernel: [ 14.805511] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
Oct 27 09:40:01 Neuromancer kernel: [ 74.004231] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -261761986 ns)

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sean talbert (sonictree2002) said : 		#2

Today it started rebooting for no reason. Ubuntu runs for no more than a few minutes before it either freezes or just reboots.

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