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My computer hangs often with gutsy amd64.

Asked by Tbjorn

My computer: ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard, Gigabyte GeForce 7300 GS grafic card, 2GB memory, SATA harddrives, TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S182D IDE DVD burner and HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-E40N USB DVD burner. Except for a few small things the computer worked well with feisty.
Programs that will cause the computer to hang: K3B, Google earth, Einstein, Kobo Deluxe.
Programs that are prone to cause hangs: Firefox, Boinc manager, PDF reader.
gDesklets won't run at all. I use desktop effects with extra, but have tried without and it made no difference.
Shall i go back to feisty or is there a cure?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Be sure to check your ram for defect pressing esc when you see the GRUB row at pc boot...

HTH

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Tbjorn (tbjornen) said : 		#2

Thank you for trying to help me.
I did run the Memtest 1 pass and it found no errors.

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Tbjorn (tbjornen) said : 		#3

Thanks elart.it, that solved my question.

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Tbjorn (tbjornen) said : 		#4

I pushed the wrong button. The problem is not solved.

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Tbjorn (tbjornen) said : 		#5

I have run memcheck 1 pass and no errors.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#6

Try to check some common system log messages files:

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

gedit /etc/var/log/messages

and

gedit /etc/var/log/syslog

Hope this helps you to find some more error or diagnostic message from the system.

Then you can also try to chech dmesg messages:

dmesg | less

Press q to exit from "less" command

Hope this help

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Tbjorn (tbjornen) said : 		#7

Thanks for the trying to help my.
The files /etc/var/log/messages and /etc/var/log/syslog was empty.
dmesg had a few oddities: 1.No NUMA configuration found
                                             2.Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized
                                             3.CPU 0: aperture @ 53c0000000 size 32 MB
                                                 Aperture too small (32 MB)
                                             4. eth1: no link during initialization.
                                                 Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
I don't know what this means.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#8

sorry i make a typo:

gedit /var/log/messages

gedit /var/log/syslog

Please check them.

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Tbjorn (tbjornen) said : 		#9

I disabled the nvidia driver and all problems except K3b vanished.