Peter wrote:
Hi,
I have a bit of a problem. For some while now I have been having some trouble with my system freezing up for no apparent reason. My impression is that it always happened within one hour of booting, but I may be wrong. It has been happening at irregular intervals over the last few months. The system was locked so solid that the only solution was to switch the machine off at the wall and reboot.
Now, however, I cannot even reach the login screen. The system appears to boot into run level 5 OK and everything works as expected with no unexpected messages during the boot sequence, but the system locks up now on the welcome screen, before the login screen appears. This follows several attempted reboots where it locked up actually on the login screen. So it's freezing earlier and earlier.
I tried to boot in FailSafe mode with the default arguments, but it froze before displaying the login prompt in run level 3 (i.e. immediately after starting services). This, and the fact that I can't even get to the login in run level 5 suggests, to me at any rate, that it's not KDE that's to blame, which was my intitial thought, or any particular application.
Sadly, Windows is unaffected, which is how I can write this. Unfortunately, Windows does not have the software I need.
Has anyone come across this before, or have any idea what might be happening?
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