I've just had a major problem with Ubuntu. I'm running 9.04 with all
updates as of 23rd August 2009 on an ASUS F5SL laptop. I've attached
some pictures (images.zip) that can help illustrate this problem better.
I have a problem that is similar to this bug where my computer freezes
occasionally when connecting to a network. Usually I just hold down the
power button and restart and everything is fine. Occasionally when fsck
runs it finds a few inconsistencies but fixes them and I get on with my
day as usual.

However this time I loaded up Ubuntu (the computer had not crashed
beforehand) and upon login I was greeted by an error. I didn't/couldn't
take a screenshot but it was saying that an item in the gnome panel
couldn't be loaded. I pressed close and then had an error saying that x
or my graphics couldn't be loaded. I had to restart the computer and
then the major problems began.

The loadup screen would run as normal but then my screen would go all
glitchy (glitchscreen.jpg) This would blink a few times and tehn my
system would become unresponsive. I restarted and fsck would run at the
loading screen and would stop after 13% saying that there's an error and
that I must run fsck manually

I tried pressing esc at the grub bootloader and running xfix. This did
nothing. I tried booting in recovery mode and fsck would run
automatically and stop at 13% with the same errors as above (fsck.jpg).

At first I ran memtest but after 63% and an hours wait with no errors I
was advised to cancel it and run fsck manually after it failed to do it
automatically. I got several messages along the lines of "Inodes 92192
count wrong. Fix?[y/n]" (manualfsck.jpg) I pressed yes on all of these
and then restarted. The boot screen loaded as normal and then I got the
glitch screen again.

Luckily I am able to load up a LiveCD and backup all of my data, which
makes me feel more comfortable with the idea of reinstalling. However,
what I want to know is what is this problem, where is it and how can I
fix it? I have the proprietary graphics driver installed for the ATI
card and have done since I installed Ubuntu in March but that has never
caused me problems. From the start Ubuntu has occasionally been crashing
due to wireless issues.

Is this a case of a bad wireless card, bad driver, proprietary graphics
card messing things up or something that I have missed along the line.

** Attachment added: "images.zip"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30695704/images.zip

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System crash when using wireless
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