Random freeze/hang

[mrchippy]

I have been running Linux mint for a few weeks now and during several occasions where it has randomly crashed. there is no specific thing i am doing that i can see that causes the hang. It just sits there with no keyboard or mouse response and the sound dose a broken record type thing, plays the last few seconds of audio over and over again. my specs are
phenom 2 X6 1090t
8G 1600 ddr3 ram
sapphire radeon hd 5850
wd 1tb hdd
asus mobo

what causes this hang/freeze and is there a way to fix it with out a restart?

[remoulder]

It is not possible to give an answer to your question given the information you provide, please read the forum rules about providing information. You should check the system logs (Administration | Log file viewer) after you have recovered from the hang to attempt to ascertain what the system was doing at the time , it may be a particular application or driver but more information would be required.

[lobati]

I'm having this same problem. Which logs would you recommend looking at?

[lobati]

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System:    Host fletch-M17x Kernel 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop Gnome Distro Linux Mint 12 Lisa
Machine:   System Alienware (portable) product M17x version A10
           Mobo Alienware model N/A version A10 Bios Alienware version A10 date 01/17/2011
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7 CPU Q 720 (-HT-MCP-) cache 6144 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx)
           Clock Speeds: (1) 931.00 MHz (2) 931.00 MHz (3) 931.00 MHz (4) 931.00 MHz (5) 931.00 MHz (6) 931.00 MHz (7) 931.00 MHz (8) 931.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: ATI Broadway XT [Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series]
           Card-2: ATI Broadway XT [Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series]
           X.Org 1.10.4 drivers ati,radeon unloaded: vesa,fbdev Resolution 1920x1200@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer Gallium 0.4 on AMD JUNIPER GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.11
Audio:     Card-1 ATI Juniper HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5700 Series] driver HDA Intel Sound: ALSA v: 1.0.24
           Card-2 Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio driver HDA Intel
Network:   Card-1 Intel 82577LC Gigabit Network Connection driver e1000e
           IF: eth0 state: down speed: 4294967295 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:26:b9:ff:70:70
           Card-2 Broadcom BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n driver brcmsmac
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: c0:cb:38:42:f7:9c
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (35.8% used) 1: /dev/sda TOSHIBA_MK5056GS 500.1GB
           2: /dev/sdb WDC_WD5000BEKT 500.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 450G used: 334G (79%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 10.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Sensors:   Error: You do not have the sensors app installed.
Info:      Processes 177 Uptime 12 min Memory 1147.5/7990.1MB Client Shell inxi 1.7.7

[lobati]

Bumping this topic. It's happening a few times a day now. Extremely frustrating. Any advice would be appreciated. My specs are above, but I don't know where else to look.

[lobati]

It seems to be related to Banshee. I tried going without music for 2 days and there wasn't a freeze. The interesting thing is, once it froze while Banshee was open but not playing.

[lobati]

Nevermind, I just had one while trying to view a video in Firefox. It does, however, always seem to happen when some sort sound is playing...