On 28 October 2011 17:57, Tony Pursell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 28 October 2011 16:29, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 28 October 2011 16:17, Tony Pursell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi all >> > >> > After upgrading to 11.10 my desktop PC crashes regularly. More >> > frequently >> > than it did with 11.04. >> > >> > I would like to file bug reports but I can't be bothered to write down >> > the >> > screenful of messages that gets displayed and I have found that photos >> > of >> > the screen are not very clear. Do these messages get logged anywhere? >> >> What sort of messages are we talking about? Is it a particular app >> that is crashing? >> >> Have a look in the log file viewer, they may well be in syslog. > > The messages (as far as I can remember now) consist of a few lines > referencing where the crash happened (and there is no consistency as to > which program it is in), a list of loaded modules and a back-trace. > > There is nothing like it in any of the logs I can find using the log viewer.
If you are getting regular crashes not associated with a particular app then you have a major problem of some sort. Either your install is serious messed up or you have a hardware problem. As I suggested in another post try the memtest and also have a look at the health of your disk in the Disk Utility. Colin -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
