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I'm on the verge of throwing my computer out my window. Ubuntu keeps randomly freezing and restarting itself. When it freezes, I can't move the mouse and it won't respond to any keyboard input. However, if I spam a lot of keys, it doesn't restart, it just stays stuck. It won't respond to REISUB either.

I can't find any correlation to what I'm doing and why it's restarting. I didn't notice anything that struck me in the logs. If you'd like me to post a specific log, please let me know. I suspect it may be over heating but whenever I monitor the temps via monitors and via nvidia they don't spike or increase more than five degrees.

The only programs I have install are relating to Ruby on Rails / Sublime Text / Chrome. I reinstalled everything, and noticed no problems. I left my computer running for four or so hours and it stayed on. Then I went through and finished RoR, it all ran. I added Guard and Zeus. Then about 20 minutes after that it restarted. I think this was random again? Or at least I couldn't find a reason why Zeus / Guard would cause a restart?

Ubuntu: 12.04
Rails: 3.2.11
Ruby: 1.9.3
Graphics: GTS 450 (Nvidia) 
Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU @ 2.40GHz × 4 
Memory: 2GB
OS: 32 Bit
Space: 30GB
NVIDIA Driver Version: 295.40

In order to get rails working, I did follow this thread: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12705351/rails-typhoeus-curl-trouble/12709051#12709051

I've read through this thread but it doesn't produce a viable solution: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/993187

Suggestions? Ideas? Sympathy or pity?

  • I have been running it all day today, not running my rails server, guard, or Zeus and it hasn't crashed. Has anyone ever heard of a RoR server causing a crash or a gem? –  Jan 31 '13 at 00:02
  • Ubuntu hasn't been restarting if I don't run anything that plays videos or music for an extended time. I'm alright if I watch a rails cast or a short YouTube video but I can't stream Pandora for hours. - Still looking for a solution! –  Feb 09 '13 at 19:28

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