[Cialug] Problems with ubuntu 5.10

[ralph]

I'm still not quite sure why I'm getting these problems but I appreciate
your suggestions for tracking them down. I did boot from a different
image and that seems to help. But the main problem seems to be
with .....
 kbuildsycoca running...
konsole: WARNING: Unable to use /usr/share/apps/konsole/mc.desktop
konsole: WARNING: Unable to use /usr/share/apps/konsole/sumc.desktop
and this segment from dmesg

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 15:07 -0500, Paul Gray wrote:

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> On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:43:24PM -0500, ralph wrote:
> > I've installed ubuntu 5.10 and it has worked well for me until recently
> > when I started to get lock ups and freezes. The only when to get system
> > to unlock is with the 3 finger salute. It is more than annoying. How may
> > i restore a corrupted kernel?
> 
> If the system responds to 3-finger salutes, then the system hasn't really gone 
> down.  I like to think that if you have caps-locks or num-locks responsivity, 
> then you can still salvage/diagnose the issue and ressurect the system.
> A diagnosis of the problem goes a lot further than a 3-finger salute any day.
> So can you provide a better description of your problem?
> 
> What do you mean by a lockup?  X stop working? (try cntl-alt-bksp
> instead of cntl-alt-del), or jump to a terminal (cntl-alt-f1) and tail 
> the logs. No keyboard input (but it recognizes cntl-alt-del???)  or mouse
> frozen?  
> 
> What does dmesg say?  Is there anything consistent
> that causes the lockup?  Your comment about restoring a corrupted kernel: do
> you mean how to restore a functional kernel?  If so, what bootloader are you
> using, and why might the current kernel be corrupt?  Did you recompile?
> 
> You post leads to more questions than can be grappled with without further
> description.
> 
> 
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