Okay here's the rundown:

2.6ghz Pentium D
1024 MB RAM
Radeon x700
PCI wireless card; Broadcom chip

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Ubuntu has been locking up... I get blinking lights on the keyboard.
My bet is that something is crashing X.

Also, Firefox crashes sporadically and my applications don't always launch. Deluge definitely locks the system up.

What do I do?

12/12/2007 9:48:48 AM

sounds like every linux desktop distro i've ever seen.

12/12/2007 9:50:51 AM

when it locks up can you still access it by ssh?


Ive gotten the blinking lights on the keyboard before but it was usually if I hit CTRL too many times. I had found a key stroke combination to break out of it but I can't remember what it was..

12/12/2007 9:51:31 AM

also a caveat:

I'm a linux n00b to the max

I don't know how to use SSH

12/12/2007 10:06:33 AM

12/12/2007 10:07:44 AM

OpenSUSE

12/12/2007 11:28:23 AM

sounds like every windows linux desktop distro i've ever seen.



There.,.. fixed it for ya.

12/12/2007 4:33:36 PM

Can you switch to a virt terminal by pressing alt-f2 or alt-f3 or alt-f4 etc.?

12/12/2007 5:59:09 PM

sounds like every windows linux desktop distro i've ever seen.



There...fixed it for ya.

12/12/2007 6:10:10 PM

Ubuntu 7.10?

Yea, for some reason 7.10 is having some major stability issues and they haven't figured it out yet.

Either go back a version or try a different distro for now.

12/12/2007 6:12:59 PM

2.6ghz Pentium D
1024 MB RAM
Radeon x700
PCI wireless card; Broadcom chip

doesn't ati historically have shitty drivers for linux, which would explain why you think X is crashing?

12/13/2007 2:03:38 AM

^fwiw, I have an NVIDIA 7300 LE in my box, and it's doing the exact same thing.

This is a known (and random/unresolved) issue with Ubuntu 7.10 ... although some are saying it's a heat issue or hardware failure issue, I know for a fact that it's not either one of those.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=601415

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=629054

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=421542

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=638236

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=487210

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=637525

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=406142

That should be enough links, feel free to find more threads that explain the issue.

Anyway, the versions prior to 7.10 have been stable on my box and Fedora 8 has been stable. No clue.

[Edited on December 13, 2007 at 2:26 AM. Reason : one more link, for good measure]

12/13/2007 2:25:57 AM

hmmm thanks

this is definitely a help

12/17/2007 4:12:16 PM