[nflug] Periodic "hangs" on Ubuntu / Dell Inspiron 8200

[David Rosonowski]

Well, no, it's not a network stall, I suppose I should have clarified
that. The whole system hangs, but the most obvious system is the
sudden lack of tunes. I'm not using wifi (someone stole my wifi card),
so I don't think that's the issue.

I'll run that in my console, though.
On 9/24/06, David J. Andruczyk <djandruczyk at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- David Rosonowski <rosonowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So, I finally got ubuntu installed, apparently my CD-RW drive just
> > needed to have the contacts cleaned and the laser sled reset.
> >
> > After a bit of tinkering, I got ffmpeg and wine working, and I have
> > my
> > MMORPG (Nexus:TK) happily running in a window. XMMS is playing music
> > over a mounted SMB share, from my winXP gaming rig in the livingroom.
> >
> > Every so often, though, the system will stop, for about two seconds,
> > like it was about to freeze, but then it keeps going on without
> > another problem for a while. It happens about twice an hour, at the
> > most.
> >
> > IT's not *terrible*, but I would like suggestions on what I can do to
> > fix it. Complete newb here, but liking it so far.
>
> Does the mouse freeze up when it does it?  IF not it might be a network
> glitch (are you on wireless?), if someone fires up a microwave oven or
> uses a 2.4Ghz phone it can distrupt a wireless lan and cause a dropout
> of your music stream making it seem like a temporary halt. (the mouse
> won't freeze in this case)
>
>
> You can try this:
> Open a terminal, and run "sudo tail -f /var/log/messages" and leave
> that window open and check it after a freeze and see if a bunch of
> errors came by,  Freezes in which the mouse hangs up are indicative of
> hardware failure,  or a badly behaving kernel driver (rare)
>
>
>
> -- David J. Andruczyk
>
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