Hi Daryl!
BM>Another 'bad' pun! I'm not sure what is causing the lockups; nothing
BM>consistent: can run several open windows (meaning applications, some
BM>with multiple instances as with running three or four OpenOffice
BM>documents at a time) and no problem, then run only a couple and things
BM>all of a sudden come to a screeching halt. Have watched the memory and
BM>CPU usage via System Monitor and no clues there.
DS> So many times, Windows is a real pain in the glass for an OS. <G>
Well the trouble is is this critter is running Linux with a Windows
Virtual Machine. Did see something which may explain the randomness;
LIS other people are having similar problems -- common is the
randomness, the mouse will work. Yesterday I had investigated the
contents of the System Log and had time to look up (Google) the last
several entries. One thing not helping is the last roughly five seconds
before the lockup were not there. Not necessarily a bad sign as every
single second isn't logged. Also no problems detected (by me) until the lockup,
so probably not missing anything.
Anyway, semi-stumbled on a post where the OP (Original Poster) uploaded
the section of the SysLog - very siimilar. The OP also stated he was
encrypting his home folder as well as the entire disk. (I'm not
encrypting.)
A reply indicated the OP is running some very 'heavy' stuff and the possibility
of the hardware just not being able to handle. Somehow I'm thinking this is the
answer, especially after trying other suggestions.
This machine was intended to be a Mythbuntu Frontend (for playback of
recorded TV shows). It is decent but definitely not up to standards for running
a half-dozen to a dozen windows at a time. I have had around
six LibreOffice windows open concurrently and its been fine, a hare
sluggish, but no other problems. So while I don't have disk encryption bogging
things down I do have a multiple applications going. (Though it
has locked up with almost nothing open.) ...Gotta build 'the god
machine' as my friend in Michigan calls it.
DS> It's rare I have lockups anymore, but when I first open Google
DS> Chrome, it takes seemingly forever and a day to load.
I say go for Firefox! <g> On the serious side, I do use Firefox and at
the lower left it places notifications I guess they could be called and
a lot of times I see "waiting for <site>", so the problem might not be
Chrome but the host sites.
Can you do something like 'Private Browsing' or change your homepage to
"about:blank"? (The latter is for Firefox to just load and get on-line;
I don't know what the Chrom equivalent is.)
Another option might be to change your DNS listings in your gateway
device. Might want to go to GRC.com and his download DNSbench.exe.
BM>Found a thread with similar probalems as I'm having and it was suggested
BM>the video driver was corrupted. ...Haven't fiddled with that as in the
BM>same thread a couple of programme monitoring utilities were suggested
BM>and using one currently. So far no lockups, which isn't unusual, but
BM>could also mean the 'keep alive' fromt he constant readings is doing
BM>something. ...Gotta build that new system!
DS> I use several of the IObit utilities, including Advanced System
DS> Care, IOBit Malware Fighter, Driver Booster, and Smart Defrag.
DS> You can use them without paying for them, but you have to run the
DS> updates manually. But, to me, the yearly registration fees (commercialware)
DS> are worth it. That's how I keep the drivers up
DS> to date...outside of when Windows 7 decides to do it...and I've
DS> noticed it does that more than just on the second Tuesday of the
DS> month. So, I manually run Windows Update sometime during the day,
DS> or late afternoon. That way, I don't come out in the morning, and
DS> the system has been sitting there after a reboot after an update,
DS> waiting for me to enter the password, and start everything.
Right -- when I was running Windows I did similar. Linux does have
frequent updates -- 2 or 3 times a week (can be configured). It is also
built differently from the way Microsoft does things. Not sure of the
details but seems more like a tiny core with a layer of 'sub-core
blocks' attached to that, and more blocks. Can 'unplug and replace' a
block. Microsoft seems to be more of a huge block with everything in it
and they dump in corrections which sometimes go to the wrong place.
BM>Of course! It's the plug-in to the electrical system that's the
BM>attraction!
DS> And, lightning gives very few secrets of where it will strike
DS> next. The joke is "when you feel the electrical charge, bend
DS> over, and kiss your @$$ goodbye"!! In a way, that's true...by the
DS> time you feel the charge, it's too late.
True. As fast as the human nervous system is the lightening strike is
faster.
BM>Right: there have been clear-weather lightening strikes. Probably the
BM>source is one of those 200 mile away clouds. ...Here I installed a whole
BM>house surge suppressor plus some protected power devices for the
BM>electrical. Phone line as a suppressor -- knocked my DSL speed slightly
BM>but better slow than no! Television antennae are weakly protected.
DS> Ah, yes...a bolt from the blue. I've seen soccer teams on the
DS> field, and one of those bolts from the blue hits, and everyone is
DS> now on the ground on the field. The 200 mile away storm was noted
DS> in Oklahoma.
One of those things were being careful doesn't help. Of course one
should be careful but also can't live in fear. (Thinking the prident
thing would be to walk around in a portable Faraday Cage -- know that's
for RF, thing it's the same to disharge voltage. Not at all practical.)
BM>Initial thought on the going to bed at 6:30 p.m. was !!, but then if not
BM>feeling good sleep frequently helps. And some people's sleep cycle is
BM>off, or at least according to what society considers normal, In my
BM>early 20's I used to get up at 11 a.m., get showered and go out with Dad
BM>for lunch. Don't recall why but occasionally get asked why I looked a
BM>little sleepy and/or get up so late by strangers -- usually accompanied
BM>by a smug undertone of you young folk are so lazy. Got to set them back
BM>a bit by replying I work from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. at <a large locally-based
BM>company that built computer systems and counter-intelligence devices for
BM>the U.S. government>. And I'd go back to what I was doing.
DS> When I worked for the Arkansas Office Of Emergency Services,
DS> doing NOAA Weather Radio at the National Weather Service in North
DS> Little Rock (all of that is automated now), my favorite shift was
DS> the graveyard (overnight). I could enjoy my hobbies in the
DS> evening, go work, and after I got off, take care of any doctors
DS> appointments, etc. -- and not have to worry about taking off
DS> work. Plus, when I was heading to work, there was hardly any
DS> traffic, and on the way home, I was going in the opposite
DS> direction of morning rush.
Not quite as good but I've happened to have lived east of where I work.
Go to work in the morning: sun's at my back. Come home from work, sun's
at my back.
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