The first thing I would do is run the Update Manager.
The latest version of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) has many reports of the kind of problems you're describing (freeze ups and unable to switch consoles). The Ubuntu 9.04 problems include: freezing, Xserver issues (fonts, Compiz, 3D, etc.), CTL-ALT-Backspace to restart Xserver has been disabled (a really dumb choice by the distro, in my opinion), and more. Visit the Ubuntu forums; post your question there and you'll see by the responses what I'm talking about. If you *are* running the latest Ubuntu, I suggest you go back to the LTS (long term support - 5 years!) version of Ubuntu (8.04 I think). I really like the Debian package manager in Ubuntu, but to date I've had my best overall Linux experience w/Red Hat based distros, CentOS, in particular. Good luck! John Kenneth Adam Miller wrote: > I'll be running linux and all of a sudden it will freeze. I don't know > what to do besides just do a hard reboot, hold down the power button > until it just shuts of immediately. > I'm liking this in my mind to running openoffice because it hasn't > done this once with me not running it. What can i do to break out of > it without losing my running applications? Does anyone know of any way > to stop it from happening? > > not even ctrl+alt+f2 works. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
