My recent project of “Rip and compress all your DVDs and put them on your hard drive, then share them across the network to your netbook” is not going well.
My extremely-powerful computer keeps crashing while excercising that extreme power, and I can’t bloody figure out what’s causing it. It rarely leaves anything in the kernel log, and what information is there doesn’t yield any clues to me about what to check.
At first, I ran “watch sensors” in a terminal to see if it was a thermal problem. It wasn’t. I clocked my system back to stock speed in case it was a problem with my overclock. Still crashed. I ran Memtest, which passed with flying colours.
I submitted a bug report to Launchpad - it has just been triaged as Medium but I don’t believe anyone at Ubuntu will know what the cause could possibly be. I stopped running KDE briefly and switched to Openbox - still freezes. I removed the Nvidia driver completely and switch to “nv” - the crashes seem to be happening more frequently now.
I upgraded my kernel and HAL from the Proposed repository, and not only is the problem still there, but the new HAL is causing problems with ejecting DVDs.
Right now I’ve pulled the cheaper RAM out of my computer and we’ll see how that goes. I just tried to SSH into my desktop and it didn’t work - it didn’t respond to ping either; it’s probably crashed again.
I wish I had any idea whatsoever of how to fix this and stop it from crashing again! I guess I could abandon the whole project; that would certainly stop the crashes as they only ever happen when I’ve been ripping DVDs or encoding video files to h.264.
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