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[Messir Voland <DrMouse@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have tried to issue "swapoff" to prevent the swap disk usage at all.
This did not help. Freezes still happened.

Now trying the PAE kernel to compare the frequency of freezes and
behavior in general.

On 10/25/2010 08:32 PM, Albert Vilella wrote:
> One option is to back up your linux data, wipe out all of it by
> reinstalling windows as original (recovery utility), then redo the
> linux partition and re-install. try to use a different partition
> layout, and place the swap partition near the beginning of the disk...
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Messir Voland <DrMouse@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:DrMouse@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Albert,
>
>     That is what exactly I did all weekend. USB stick runs fine for
>     hours without crashes.
>
>     But also I did not find any useful way to check the HDD or
>     partition status.
>
>     SMART status is Healthy. I've checked it from windows with Seagate
>     utility and also from Ubuntu by running System-Administration-Disk
>     Utility.
>
>     Self tests: Completed OK
>     Bad sectors: none
>     Overall Assessment: Disk is healthy
>
>     Are there any way to check the overall system stability and
>     partitions/read-writes errors?
>
>     Thanks in advance.
>
>
>     On 10/22/2010 09:34 PM, Albert Vilella wrote:
>>     segfaults all over the place could be due to problems with the
>>     linux partition.
>>     If you can, try to use a Linux Live CD or USB stick for a while,
>>     to see if get any freezes when not using the hard drive at all...
>>
>>     I would also try to switch off the wireless and see if you can
>>     still see freezes...
>>
>>     On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Messir Voland <DrMouse@xxxxxxxxx
>>     <mailto:DrMouse@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>         I have UL30VT-QX073V.
>>
>>         Unfortunately I found nothing useful in dmesg or kern.log or
>>         messages logs.
>>         I browsed many places of logs when freezes did happen.
>>
>>         Usually the log looks like:
>>
>>         Oct 22 14:54:18 homebook kernel: [12526.985221] sr 4:0:0:0:
>>         Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
>>         Oct 22 14:54:18 homebook kernel: [12526.985366] sr 4:0:0:0:
>>         Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
>>         Oct 22 15:21:33 homebook kernel: imklog 4.2.0, log source =
>>         /proc/kmsg started.
>>
>>         where freeze happened at Oct 22 15:19:XX (who knows when)
>>
>>         Now I am logging all freezes manually. Actually they are
>>         happening 2-4 times a day. Later I will do analysis of all
>>         issues at once.
>>
>>         Which log for Xorg should I study? Worg.log also contains no
>>         any EE or suspicious info.
>>
>>         What is also noticeable that I am also observe multiple and
>>         often segfaults for different applications and various libs.
>>
>>
>>         On 10/09/2010 10:55 PM, Albert Vilella wrote:
>>>         can you submit a bug report to bugs.launchpad.net <http://bugs.launchpad.net> just after reboot
>>>         from a freeze?
>>>         the dmesg.log file should contain useful information, but
>>>         alternatively, if it's a xserver
>>>         freeze like it probably is, you can automatically upload all the
>>>         relevant log info by using this command line:
>>>
>>>         apport-bug xserver-org
>>>
>>>         cheers,
>>>
>>>         albert.
>>>
>>>         On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:51 PM, David Neeley <dbneeley@xxxxxxxxx> <mailto:dbneeley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>                   
>>>>         My UL30a-x5 freezes like that perhaps two to three times per week and
>>>>         must be rebooted. Not often enough for me to worry about it overmuch;
>>>>         it generally happens after many hours of operation and does not seem
>>>>         to be getting worse in any way. Thus, it's a relatively minor
>>>>         inconvenience--but I'd love to get to the bottom of it.
>>>>
>>>>         I have toyed with the idea of compiling a custom kernel for it but
>>>>         simply haven't gotten around to it. I'll move within the next 48 hours
>>>>         or so from a late beta of Kubuntu Maverick to the release version--but
>>>>         it did the same thing with earlier versions as well.
>>>>
>>>>         David
>>>>
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>>
>


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