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Ubuntu Freezing

Bug #669935 reported by sean talbert
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Bug Description

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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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

Hello sean
can you please attach here, using below green button Add attachment or patch and browsing to these files:
/var/log/syslog
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
Thanks
Fabio

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sean talbert (sonictree2002) wrote :
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sean talbert (sonictree2002) wrote :
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sean talbert (sonictree2002) wrote :

I've also tried not using the NVidia driver and it made no difference.

sean talbert (sonictree2002)
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status: Incomplete → In Progress
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Yvan Masson (yvan-masson) wrote :

Hi,

I am facing what I suppose to be the same issue on a Dell Optiplex 740, with the same graphic card and almost the same processor (an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+), running the nouveau driver.
Xubuntu 14.04 often hangs at boot : it begins with corrupted graphics (very similar of the one attached) on the boot splash followed by a complete freeze of the computer (lightdm never appears and I can't access to TTY).
Recently I also tried booting removing the "splash" option in grub (thinking that the problem was comming from the bootsplash), but the computer froze again, so the bootsplash is not the problem.

I have never seen the computer freezing atfter lightm has appeared : it only happened on during the boot.

I previously tried Debian Jessie on this computer, with Gnome and Cinnamon, wich both causing corrupted graphics and followed by a complete freeze. Debian Jessie with Xfce never froze. The report is here, including system logs and similar screenshot : https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771416

Please apologize if I should instead open another bug report.
I would also be glad if I can help : feel free to contact me.

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