[PLUG] Xubuntu Laptop Locks Up

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Fri Jan 6 16:36:52 UTC 2012


Rich Shepard wrote:
>    This is probably a hardware issue, but the system runs xubuntu-11.10 so I
> think it's on topic for this list.
> 
>    We have a Toshiba Satellite laptop about 2-3 years old that is heavily used
> every day. Most used application is a Web browser (Seamonkey) accessing
> facebook and gmail. The system keeps locking up by becoming completely
> unresponsive for several minutes at a time. When switching to a different
> virtual desktop it takes a long time for the screen to display.
> 
>    What might be causing this?

Hard disk retrying over and over on a marginal sector?
Fan failure?

I'd try booting Knoppix and see whether you experience similar problems.

galen
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