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Continuing freezes with no choice but hard reboot

Hi,

I have a dual-boot desktop with Ubuntu 13.10 and windows 7. I have experience constant freezes since I installed xbmc, so I uninstalled it and now the lock ups happen randomly in Ubuntu. I have tried all of the nvidia drivers and everyone seems worst than the one before. I mean more problems are created with each driver. I have purge nvidia everytime I installed a next nvidia driver and the 319 (propetiary) is the most stable so far, but i can't get to get Linux to work properly, but windows 7 runs smooth and that is really weird.

The freezes occur this way:
I'm using watching a video or listen to music or browsing the internet (hopefully i can finish this post) and the cursor stops moving, but my keyboard is still responsive music keeps playing or video and the clock keeps running. At this point I press ALT+CTRL+F1 and everything stops working right away and the screen is completely unresponsive and I have no other choice, but to hard reboot my computer which hurts my heart.

Hopefully you guys can help me otherwise I would have to back to Windows. NOOOOOOOO!! That just gave me goose bumps, scary thought.

Thank you in advance.

Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 8450 Triple-Core Processor × 3
Graphics: GeForce 9100/integrated/SSE2

Hi,

Does anyone know where should I start to look for a solution to this problem, please?
Is there any app/program that can help find any conflict between packages or driver errors?
I need some assistance on this matter or some guidance on where to go get some help.

Thank you for your time.

You might want to start investigating /var/log.
One application that might help is 'star'.

Hope this helps.

ATM I believe this to be a hardware failure of the graphics card. However, it could also be due to bad drivers. How sure are you that it doesn't happen in Windoze ? Test it out.

Hi,

The freezes have not stopped and the /var/log does not show something really critical to my eyes that is, but there were some that caught my attention:

Code:

Feb  8 18:00:32 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f udisksd[2360]: Mounted /dev/sdb1 at /media/theunique/My Book1 on behalf of uid 1000

Feb  8 18:01:41 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f whoopsie[1077]: online

Feb  8 18:02:52  whoopsie[1077]: last message repeated 2 times

Feb  8 18:05:57 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f whoopsie[1077]: online

Feb  8 18:07:23  whoopsie[1077]: last message repeated 2 times

Feb  8 18:14:29 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f whoopsie[1077]: online

Feb  8 18:15:53  whoopsie[1077]: last message repeated 2 times

Feb  8 18:17:01 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f CRON[2630]: (root) CMD (  cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)

Feb  8 18:31:33 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f whoopsie[1077]: online

Feb  8 18:32:54  whoopsie[1077]: last message repeated 2 times

Feb  8 18:51:59 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f kernel: imklog 5.8.11, log source = /proc/kmsg started.

Feb  8 18:51:59 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.8.11" x-pid="654" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start

Feb  8 18:51:59 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 103

Feb  8 18:51:59 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101

Feb  8 18:51:59 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f rsyslogd-2039: Could not open output pipe '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]

or this one:

Code:

Feb  8 18:52:02 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f kernel: [  26.137431] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.IXVE.IGPU._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130517/nsarguments-95)

Feb  8 18:52:02 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f kernel: [  26.137454] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.IXVE.IGPU._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130517/nsarguments-95)

Feb  8 18:52:02 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f kernel: [  26.137488] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.IXVE.IGPU._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130517/nsarguments-95)

Feb  8 18:52:02 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f kernel: [  26.137505] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.IXVE.IGPU._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130517/nsarguments-95)

Feb  8 18:52:02 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f kernel: [  26.137519] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.IXVE.IGPU._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130517/nsarguments-95)

Feb  8 18:52:02 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f kernel: [  26.137534] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.IXVE.IGPU._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130517/nsarguments-95)

Feb  8 18:52:02 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f kernel: [  26.137547] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.IXVE.IGPU._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130517/nsarguments-95)

Feb  8 18:52:02 theunique-NP220AA-A2L-p6152f kernel: [  26.137560] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.IXVE.IGPU._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20130517/nsarguments-95)

I will keep watching this situation, however, how do I get that 'star' app?
I have run windows for hours with no freezes, so I guess it's not a hardware issue. I can even run games in windows with no lock ups.

Any other suggestion on what should I look for in the var/log, that are causing continuous freezes like those?

Thanks for the help.

Look for something about the nivdia driver in Xorg.0.log. Look for things that occur near the time of the crash.

Something very important, trying using REISUB during the lockup:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reisub
This will also help to write logs to disk so you can actually see something in the logs from the time of the crash.