I'm running Ubuntu and for some time now, I've had a big problem with it
locking up. The machine simply won't run for more than 8-10 hours
without locking up. It just freezes, completely, and there's nothing in
the logs to suggest what went wrong.

Sometimes it locks up after a little while, sometimes it goes all day.
This has been happening since summer and all this month, so heat is not
a problem.

It seemed like a memory problem, but I ran memtest86 overnight (about 40
passes total) and it showed no errors. So it seems like a kernel bug, or
a problem with the motherboard. Any suggestions on how to track down the
problem?

I upgraded to Edgy Eft, since that has a new kernel, but an hour
after getting that going, it locked up just like before.

This is very irritating. I use a Windows machine sometimes at work and
it's very depressing to see it run continuously for a week or more with
no problems while my Linux box crashes about once a day!

Here's some specs:

  MSI KM3M-V motherboard
  Sempron 1.75GHz cpu
  2 512MB sticks of Crucial RAM

Suggestions for how to track down the problem? Thanks.

Dan

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