Desktop crashy all of a sudden--what can cause this?
I have a linux desktop at work that, until 2 days ago, was completely stable. 200+ days of uptime and no problems at all. Running ubuntu 10.04, if memory serves. I mostly use it for piddly perl stuff and administering a website via ssh.
All of a sudden, it locked up and I had to restart. Ever since, the system will only stay up for a few hours at most. Often, the display goes weird with strange blocking and tearing, while I can still kind-of use the gui. The system will do weird things, like the GUI will work, but I can't launch any programs...even simple things like nautilus. Sometimes the simplest programs like top and du instantly die saying 'killed'. Or they start but then segfault. One time I switched to a virtual terminal to try to restart the xserver, but I couldn't log in...when I entered my credentials I got a screen of debug information including weird memory addresses and a message saying BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request. Since I can't log in, I had to power-cycle. Or the system just locks up hard.
I ran 3 passes of memtest this morning and no errors.
Are there any log files I can look at that might tell me what's wrong? I can try a clean reinstall, but my home directory is encrypted and I'm worried that re-mounting it to a new install might be interesting.
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