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Ubuntu 10.10 totally Freezes

Asked by Gowtham Sadasivam

hey guys,
I'm having a problem with my Ubuntu 10.10 system. After installing the OS it worked fine. But after one or two restarts it totally freezes i mean NO Ctrl+Alt+Bckspc , NO Ctrl+Alt+F1 and Ctrl+Alt+Del works for me. I have the same problem with Ubuntu 10.04 , 9.10 also. ( Only Ubuntu version 9.04 Works fine for me ). But i want to make use the latest one. Please help me to do this guys.

Here is my system config:

Mercury PI945GCM
Intel Dual Core
2 GB RAM
1 TB HDD

Is there anything wrong with my configuration??

my partition is like this,

58 GB for / (root)
20 GB for /home
20 GB swap

The Other partitions are NTFS for my Windows 7 Ultimate. ( i mean i have dual boot Ubuntu & Windows 7 ).

After Ubuntu fails some time it crush the GRUB loader, so that i can't boot windows either. Any buddy tell me why this happen to me?

I've try to install Linux Mint 10 also but it freezes while installing..!!

Now I loaded the openSUSE 11.4 milestone 3. It works fine for now but i can't connect to internet , it asks for "linux-atm-lib" . i don't know how to do that ..

Still i want to use the Ubuntu 10.10 Please help me to find my problem..!!

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Theodotos Andreou (theodotos) said : 		#1

Can you try testing your RAM. When the ubuntu disk starts booting press any key and select "Memory Test"

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Gowtham Sadasivam (gowthamsadasivam) said : 		#2

Yes i tried the memory test, but nothing seems wrong.

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Theodotos Andreou (theodotos) said : 		#3

It's hard to tell what could be causing this problem. Try using the 10.04.1 Ubuntu release which is LTS (Long Term Support) and generally more robust.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#4

If freezing occurs during normal usage (after login screen), it could be an hardware issue (but in this case, it should fail with 9.04) or else an issue with graphic card driver.
Could you post result of:
   lshw -class display

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Gowtham Sadasivam (gowthamsadasivam) said : 		#5

Hey guys,

                  Thanks for your support and replies. But i've solved this problem of my own. Actually i does a simple change in my installation configuration. That in my old configuration i gave 58 GB space for Root (/) , this time i split the 58GB into 24GB and 34GB of partitions and install 24GB for the Root(/) and 34GB for /usr . Now the problem was almost solved for me. My Ubuntu boots, login and i can use it without freeze. But still some times i got freeze. ( for ex. installing/running a heavy software like VMware..etc). Any buddy got idea about this issue ??

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Gowtham Sadasivam (gowthamsadasivam) said : 		#6

But still some times i got freeze. ( for ex. installing/running a heavy software like VMware..etc). Any buddy got idea about this issue ??

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#7

What do you means by "freeze" ?

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Gowtham Sadasivam (gowthamsadasivam) said : 		#8

Freeze - I mean Its totally hangs up .. Nothings moving in my screen. Keyboard & Mouse not working also. But when i used to split the partitions i got it working . But today it totally crush my system i mean GRUB crushed no boot menu. Is that a butter idea to install ubuntu without allocating extra partitions like ( /home , /usr , /boot...etc) and use only root (/) and swap ? ?

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#9

The best partitionning scheme is:
1-swap
2-"/"
3-"/home"
Sometimes, "/boot" needs to be on a dedicated partition, but it's not your case.
Doing more partitions is meaningfull only for professionnal people, who manages servers.
Using "/" and "/home" needs to know how to define mounting point.
If you don't know, only use swap and "/".
A dedicated "/home" partition make easier future installation.

First solution is:
remove all current Linux partitions (and loose data)
make an extended partition with freed space
reinstall 9.10

Second solution is:
providing me current partition table and mounting point on it (/etc/fstab)
after, I will provide the procedure to apply

You choose!

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