[Gllug] Random freezes

[Jan Kokoska]

Run memtest from Ubuntu GRUB boot menu/install cd for a few hours/full
day. Sequentially read the whole disk into /dev/null. This is usually
the case of ageing hardware, and most frequently, it will be either
ram or disk.

Jan

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:50:43 +0000, Jack Bertram <jack at jbertram.net> wrote:
> My main home Linux box used to run reliably (unless I rebooted it, it
> would run essentially without fault with max uptimes of over a year).
> However, increasing filesystem corruption and failure of boot scripts
> meant that I took the decision to replace it with a fresh install of
> Ubuntu.  Since then, it has begun to intermittently freeze.  Sometimes
> this is preceded by the root filesystem becoming readonly.  Nothing is
> written to the syslog so I haven't the foggiest how to trace the error.
> It's now running kernel 2.6.8 (ubuntu standard) whereas before I was on
> 2.4.20.
> 
> Any ideas how to chase this down?  The freezes (both console, X and
> network) seem to happen randomly from a couple of days after reboot to 4
> days after reboot.
> 
> j
> 
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