System Crash every 15-20 minutes!

[UnknownDemon]

Hi,
As you might have seen in an earlier post, if my PC lags a bit it crashes!
But I wouldn't think it would be an ordinary crash. Earlier today I installed Xubuntu 10.04
onto my PC. Well, The installation was smooth and I was able to get it installed.
I was thinking Thank God it installed!! Then all of a sudden when I was looking around
my PC got caught in a little lag.. And when it lagged this black screen came up and it said
"Starting Common Unix System; cupsd [ OK ] "
"Checking Battery State [ OK ] "
Then That screen disappears and these Straight gray bars come up and they cover the top of my screen
And they just blink! I figured it might be a glitch so I went to go eat dinner.
About 20-30 minutes later I come back and there still blinking.
I tryed rebooting the system and trying again and it got cought in a little lag and the
"Starting Common Unix System [ OK ] "
"Checking Battery State [ OK ] "
Came back up and it disappeared again and the bars came back!
I tried reinstalling Xubuntu 10.04 but it came out the same result.
I tried updating the system cause when I installed it it said I had 164 updates waiting.
It's getting real frustrating! Please HELP!!!!! ;(

_PC INFO_
Dell Dimension 2300 with Xubuntu 10.04 as the operating system
256mbs of RAM
Graphic Card: VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
80 Gig Hard Drive
Dell Moniter 17" 100-200V
_________

[Kloschüssel]

the hardware looks old. could it be a hardware failure of the motherboard, ram, hard drive, ..?

[Lakshmipathi]

If possible can you post the output of command

dmesg

And also content of file /var/log/messages

[UnknownDemon]

Probably so, But it ran Ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala before perfectly.
Then I went to windows for a little bit and then installed the latest release of Xubuntu.

[UnknownDemon]

deathgod@ubuntu:~$ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32-21-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 (Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2)
[ 0.000000] KERNEL supported cpus:
[ 0.000000] Intel GenuineIntel
[ 0.000000] AMD AuthenticAMD
[ 0.000000] NSC Geode by NSC
[ 0.000000] Cyrix CyrixInstead
[ 0.000000] Centaur CentaurHauls
[ 0.000000] Transmeta GenuineTMx86
[ 0.000000] Transmeta TransmetaCPU
[ 0.000000] UMC UMC UMC UMC
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fef0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000fef0000 - 000000000fef3000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000fef3000 - 000000000ff00000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
[ 0.000000] last_pfn = 0xfef0 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
[ 0.000000] MTRR default type: uncachable
[ 0.000000] MTRR fixed ranges enabled:
[ 0.000000] 00000-9FFFF write-back
[ 0.000000] A0000-BFFFF uncachable
[ 0.000000] C0000-C9FFF write-protect
[ 0.000000] CA000-F7FFF uncachable
[ 0.000000] F8000-FBFFF write-through
[ 0.000000] FC000-FFFFF uncachable
[ 0.000000] MTRR variable ranges enabled:
[ 0.000000] 0 base 000000000 mask FF0000000 write-back
[ 0.000000] 1 base 00FF00000 mask FFFF00000 uncachable
[ 0.000000] 2 disabled
[ 0.000000] 3 disabled
[ 0.000000] 4 disabled
[ 0.000000] 5 disabled
[ 0.000000] 6 disabled
[ 0.000000] 7 disabled
[ 0.000000] x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
[ 0.000000] e820 update range: 0000000000002000 - 0000000000006000 (usable) ==> (reserved)
[ 0.000000] Scanning 1 areas for low memory corruption
[ 0.000000] modified physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] modified: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000002000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] modified: 0000000000002000 - 0000000000006000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] modified: 0000000000006000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] modified: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] modified: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] modified: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fef0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] modified: 000000000fef0000 - 000000000fef3000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] modified: 000000000fef3000 - 000000000ff00000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] modified: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] modified: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] modified: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] initial memory mapped : 0 - 00c00000
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-000000000fef0000
[ 0.000000] Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
[ 0.000000] 0000000000 - 0000400000 page 4k
[ 0.000000] 0000400000 - 000fc00000 page 2M
[ 0.000000] 000fc00000 - 000fef0000 page 4k
[ 0.000000] kernel direct mapping tables up to fef0000 @ 7000-c000
[ 0.000000] RAMDISK: 0b7dd000 - 0bf73abb
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000f6e40 00014 (v00 IntelR)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 0fef3000 00030 (v01 IntelR AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 00000000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 0fef3040 00074 (v01 IntelR AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 00000000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 0fef30c0 0386E (v01 INTELR AWRDACPI 00001000 MSFT 0100000C)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 0fef0000 00040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: BOOT 0fef6940 00028 (v01 IntelR AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 00000000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 0fef6980 00054 (v01 IntelR AWRDACPI 42302E31 AWRD 00000000)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 254MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] mapped low ram: 0 - 0fef0000
[ 0.000000] low ram: 0 - 0fef0000
[ 0.000000] node 0 low ram: 00000000 - 0fef0000
[ 0.000000] node 0 bootmap 00008000 - 00009fe0
[ 0.000000] (9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 000fef0000]
[ 0.000000] #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
[ 0.000000] #1 [0000001000 - 0000002000] EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000]
[ 0.000000] #2 [0000006000 - 0000007000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000]
[ 0.000000] #3 [0000100000 - 00008d9e98] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 00008d9e98]
[ 0.000000] #4 [000b7dd000 - 000bf73abb] RAMDISK ==> [000b7dd000 - 000bf73abb]
[ 0.000000] #5 [000009fc00 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009fc00 - 0000100000]
[ 0.000000] #6 [00008da000 - 00008dd1a4] BRK ==> [00008da000 - 00008dd1a4]
[ 0.000000] #7 [0000007000 - 0000008000] PGTABLE ==> [0000007000 - 0000008000]
[ 0.000000] #8 [0000008000 - 000000a000] BOOTMAP ==> [0000008000 - 000000a000]
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00f4ca0] f4ca0
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00001000
[ 0.000000] Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x0000fef0
[ 0.000000] HighMem 0x0000fef0 -> 0x0000fef0
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000002
[ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000006 -> 0x0000009f
[ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0000fef0
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 65163
[ 0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c0798720, node_mem_map c1001000
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 3963 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 478 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 60690 pages, LIFO batch:15
[ 0.000000] Using APIC driver default
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[ 0.000000] SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
[ 0.000000] nr_irqs_gsi: 24
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 0000000000002000 - 0000000000006000
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000
[ 0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at ff00000 (gap: ff00000:eed00000)
[ 0.000000] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 0.000000] NR_CPUS:8 nr_cpumask_bits:8 nr_cpu_ids:1 nr_node_ids:1
[ 0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 14 pages/cpu @c1400000 s36024 r0 d21320 u4194304
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s36024 r0 d21320 u4194304 alloc=1*4194304
[ 0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 64653
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=fbbc7248-065b-4fff-922a-753bcccb42f1 ro quiet splash
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[ 0.000000] allocated 1305280 bytes of page_cgroup
[ 0.000000] please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups
[ 0.000000] Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00000000:00000000)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 240852k/261056k available (4673k kernel code, 19456k reserved, 2122k data, 656k init, 0k highmem)
[ 0.000000] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xfff1d000 - 0xfffff000 ( 904 kB)
[ 0.000000] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xd06f0000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 753 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xcfef0000 ( 254 MB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc07a3000 - 0xc0847000 ( 656 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc0590613 - 0xc07a2e48 (2122 kB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0590613 (4673 kB)
[ 0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
[ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=128, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:2304 nr_irqs:256
[ 0.000000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
[ 0.000000] Fast TSC calibration using PIT
[ 0.000000] Detected 1793.891 MHz processor.
[ 0.008010] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 3587.78 BogoMIPS (lpj=7175564)
[ 0.008049] Security Framework initialized
[ 0.008098] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
[ 0.008113] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 0.008399] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
[ 0.008410] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 0.008419] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[ 0.008438] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 0.008445] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 0.008449] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[ 0.008498] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
[ 0.008505] CPU: L2 cache: 512K
[ 0.008510] CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
[ 0.008518] mce: CPU supports 4 MCE banks
[ 0.008539] CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1)
[ 0.008562] Performance Events: no PMU driver, software events only.
[ 0.008578] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 0.025641] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 0.043730] Freeing SMP alternatives: 19k freed
[ 0.043798] ACPI: Core revision 20090903
[ 0.059348] ftrace: converting mcount calls to 0f 1f 44 00 00
[ 0.059357] ftrace: allocating 21771 entries in 43 pages
[ 0.064238] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
[ 0.064573] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[ 0.106979] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz stepping 07
[ 0.108001] Brought up 1 CPUs
[ 0.108001] Total of 1 processors activated (3587.78 BogoMIPS).
[ 0.108001] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.
[ 0.108001] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.108001] regulator: core version 0.5
[ 0.108001] Time: 5:27:37 Date: 08/03/10
[ 0.108001] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.108001] EISA bus registered
[ 0.108001] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[ 0.133071] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfaeb0, last bus=1
[ 0.133075] PCI: Using configuration type 1 for base access
[ 0.135158] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[ 0.136193] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[ 0.143942] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[ 0.143965] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
[ 0.144036] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[ 0.150967] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.151178] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[ 0.151269] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 10 32bit mmio pref: [0xe8000000-0xebffffff]
[ 0.151384] pci 0000:00:02.0: reg 10 32bit mmio pref: [0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff]
[ 0.151395] pci 0000:00:02.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xec100000-0xec17ffff]
[ 0.151543] pci 0000:00:1d.0: reg 20 io port: [0xd800-0xd81f]
[ 0.151618] pci 0000:00:1d.1: reg 20 io port: [0xd000-0xd01f]
[ 0.151694] pci 0000:00:1d.2: reg 20 io port: [0xd400-0xd41f]
[ 0.151769] pci 0000:00:1d.7: reg 10 32bit mmio: [0xec180000-0xec1803ff]
[ 0.151838] pci 0000:00:1d.7: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
[ 0.151847] pci 0000:00:1d.7: PME# disabled
[ 0.151921] * The chipset may have PM-Timer Bug. Due to workarounds for a bug,
[ 0.151924] * this clock source is slow. If you are sure your timer does not have
[ 0.151926] * this bug, please use "acpi_pm_good" to disable the workaround
[ 0.151985] pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 0400-047f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
[ 0.152013] pci 0000:00:1f.0: quirk: region 0480-04bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
[ 0.152050] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 10 io port: [0x00-0x07]
[ 0.152060] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 14 io port: [0x00-0x03]
[ 0.152070] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 18 io port: [0x00-0x07]
[ 0.152080] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 1c io port: [0x00-0x03]
[ 0.152090] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 20 io port: [0xf000-0xf00f]
[ 0.152100] pci 0000:00:1f.1: reg 24 32bit mmio: [0x000000-0x0003ff]
[ 0.152172] pci 0000:00:1f.3: reg 20 io port: [0x500-0x51f]
[ 0.152235] pci 0000:00:1f.5: reg 10 io port: [0xe000-0xe0ff]
[ 0.152245] pci 0000:00:1f.5: reg 14 io port: [0xe400-0xe43f]
[ 0.152255] pci 0000:00:1f.5: reg 18 32bit mmio: [0xec181000-0xec1811ff]
[ 0.152265] pci 0000:00:1f.5: reg 1c 32bit mmio: [0xec182000-0xec1820ff]
[ 0.152306] pci 0000:00:1f.5: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
[ 0.152313] pci 0000:00:1f.5: PME# disabled
[ 0.152383] pci 0000:01:04.0: reg 10 io port: [0xc000-0xc0ff]
[ 0.152394] pci 0000:01:04.0: reg 14 32bit mmio: [0xec000000-0xec0000ff]
[ 0.152446] pci 0000:01:04.0: supports D1 D2
[ 0.152450] pci 0000:01:04.0: PME# supported from D1 D2 D3hot D3cold
[ 0.152456] pci 0000:01:04.0: PME# disabled
[ 0.152505] pci 0000:00:1e.0: transparent bridge
[ 0.152513] pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge io port: [0xc000-0xcfff]
[ 0.152520] pci 0000:00:1e.0: bridge 32bit mmio: [0xec000000-0xec0fffff]
[ 0.152536] pci_bus 0000:00: on NUMA node 0
[ 0.152546] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[ 0.152786] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
[ 0.180934] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
[ 0.181143] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 0.181349] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
[ 0.181550] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 0.181756] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[ 0.181961] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[ 0.182167] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[ 0.182373] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 0.182646] vgaarb: device added: PCI:0000:00:02.0,decodes=io+mem,owns=io+mem,locks= none
[ 0.182659] vgaarb: loaded
[ 0.182947] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 0.183146] libata version 3.00 loaded.
[ 0.183315] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.183341] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.183396] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.183697] ACPI: WMI: Mapper loaded
[ 0.183702] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[ 0.183974] NetLabel: Initializing
[ 0.183979] NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
[ 0.183981] NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
[ 0.184040] NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
[ 0.184122] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 0.188071] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled
[ 0.188134] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[ 0.188186] ACPI: bus type pnp registered
[ 0.192717] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
[ 0.192723] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
[ 0.192734] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[ 0.192775] system 00:00: iomem range 0xcc000-0xcffff has been reserved
[ 0.192783] system 00:00: iomem range 0xf0000-0xf7fff could not be reserved
[ 0.192789] system 00:00: iomem range 0xf8000-0xfbfff could not be reserved
[ 0.192794] system 00:00: iomem range 0xfc000-0xfffff could not be reserved
[ 0.192800] system 00:00: iomem range 0xfef0000-0xfefffff could not be reserved
[ 0.192805] system 00:00: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
[ 0.192810] system 00:00: iomem range 0x100000-0xfeeffff could not be reserved
[ 0.192816] system 00:00: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserved
[ 0.192822] system 00:00: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff has been reserved
[ 0.192827] system 00:00: iomem range 0xffb00000-0xffbfffff has been reserved
[ 0.192833] system 00:00: iomem range 0xfff00000-0xffffffff has been reserved
[ 0.192838] system 00:00: iomem range 0xe0000-0xeffff has been reserved
[ 0.192852] system 00:02: ioport range 0x400-0x4bf could not be reserved
[ 0.192866] system 00:03: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
[ 0.192873] system 00:03: ioport range 0x800-0x87f has been reserved
[ 0.227880] pci 0000:00:1e.0: PCI bridge, secondary bus 0000:01
[ 0.227887] pci 0000:00:1e.0: IO window: 0xc000-0xcfff
[ 0.227896] pci 0000:00:1e.0: MEM window: 0xec000000-0xec0fffff
[ 0.227903] pci 0000:00:1e.0: PREFETCH window: disabled
[ 0.227929] pci 0000:00:1e.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 0.227938] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 0 io: [0x00-0xffff]
[ 0.227943] pci_bus 0000:00: resource 1 mem: [0x000000-0xffffffff]
[ 0.227948] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 0 io: [0xc000-0xcfff]
[ 0.227953] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 1 mem: [0xec000000-0xec0fffff]
[ 0.227957] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 3 io: [0x00-0xffff]
[ 0.227962] pci_bus 0000:01: resource 4 mem: [0x000000-0xffffffff]
[ 0.228046] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.228249] IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.228807] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.228926] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.229040] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[ 0.229044] TCP reno registered
[ 0.229189] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.229229] pci 0000:00:02.0: Boot video device
[ 0.229534] Simple Boot Flag at 0x59 set to 0x1
[ 0.229732] cpufreq-nforce2: No nForce2 chipset.
[ 0.229798] Scanning for low memory corruption every 60 seconds
[ 0.230058] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 0.230085] type=2000 audit(1280813257.227:1): initialized
[ 0.244868] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[ 0.260298] HugeTLB registered 4 MB page size, pre-allocated 0 pages
[ 0.267232] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.2
[ 0.267362] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.268643] fuse init (API version 7.13)
[ 0.268827] msgmni has been set to 471
[ 0.272749] alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
[ 0.272992] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
[ 0.273000] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.273003] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 0.273008] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 0.273095] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 0.273327] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 0.273377] pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 0.273584] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input0
[ 0.273594] ACPI: Power Button [PWRB]
[ 0.273718] input: Power Button as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input1
[ 0.273724] ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
[ 0.273815] fan PNP0C0B:00: registered as cooling_device0
[ 0.273825] ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
[ 0.274392] processor LNXCPU:00: registered as cooling_device1
[ 0.320722] thermal LNXTHERM:01: registered as thermal_zone0
[ 0.320748] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (-91 C)
[ 0.328835] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.328995] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 0.329690] 00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 0.331745] brd: module loaded
[ 0.331925] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 0.338339] loop: module loaded
[ 0.338589] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input2
[ 0.338871] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.13
[ 0.338928] alloc irq_desc for 18 on node -1
[ 0.338932] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[ 0.338951] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 0.339081] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: setting latency timer to 64
[ 0.343917] scsi0 : ata_piix
[ 0.387889] scsi1 : ata_piix
[ 0.389511] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xf000 irq 14
[ 0.389517] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xf008 irq 15
[ 0.390323] Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[ 0.390406] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 0.390583] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
[ 0.390587] tun: (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
[ 0.390792] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 0.390855] alloc irq_desc for 23 on node -1
[ 0.390860] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[ 0.390878] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: PCI INT D -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[ 0.390918] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: setting latency timer to 64
[ 0.390925] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
[ 0.390994] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 0.394956] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: cache line size of 128 is not supported
[ 0.400367] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, io mem 0xec180000
[ 0.420087] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 0.420456] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 0.420524] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.420557] hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
[ 0.420697] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[ 0.420733] uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
[ 0.420888] alloc irq_desc for 16 on node -1
[ 0.420893] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[ 0.420909] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 0.420932] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 0.420939] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
[ 0.421039] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 0.421098] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 16, io base 0x0000d800
[ 0.421284] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 0.421338] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.421359] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.421447] alloc irq_desc for 19 on node -1
[ 0.421452] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[ 0.421463] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 0.421474] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: setting latency timer to 64
[ 0.421480] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
[ 0.421564] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 0.421606] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0x0000d000
[ 0.421780] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 0.421832] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.421854] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.421937] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 0.421952] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: setting latency timer to 64
[ 0.421958] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 0.422033] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 0.422075] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000d400
[ 0.422274] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 0.422323] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.422344] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 0.422529] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 0.422534] PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp
[ 0.423389] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 0.428203] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 0.428519] rtc_cmos 00:05: RTC can wake from S4
[ 0.428629] rtc_cmos 00:05: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0
[ 0.428674] rtc0: alarms up to one month, 242 bytes nvram
[ 0.428951] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[ 0.429240] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.15.0-ioctl (2009-04-01) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[ 0.431880] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.0 loaded
[ 0.431889] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.432310] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 0.432363] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 0.434357] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 0.434362] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 0.435329] TCP cubic registered
[ 0.435591] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 0.436549] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 0.437102] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 0.437310] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 0.437553] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[ 0.437594] registered taskstats version 1
[ 0.437906] Magic number: 6:689:465
[ 0.438074] rtc_cmos 00:05: setting system clock to 2010-08-03 05:27:37 UTC (1280813257)
[ 0.438081] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 0.438084] EDD information not available.
[ 0.450384] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input3
[ 0.616382] ata2.00: ATAPI: _NEC CD-RW NR-9100A, 108A, max UDMA/33
[ 0.672085] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 0.680792] ata1.00: ATA-6: ST380011A, 8.16, max UDMA/100
[ 0.680799] ata1.00: 156250000 sectors, multi 16: LBA48
[ 0.696542] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 1.024013] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.024086] usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 1.024448] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST380011A 8.16 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 1.024862] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 1.025239] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156250000 512-byte logical blocks: (80.0 GB/74.5 GiB)
[ 1.025334] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 1.025340] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 1.025389] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1.025685] sda: sda1 sda2 <
[ 1.053527] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM _NEC CD-RW NR-9100A 108A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 1.058099] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 1.058111] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 1.058423] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 1.058597] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[ 1.059733] Freeing initrd memory: 7770k freed
[ 1.083803] sda5 >
[ 1.085016] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 1.085057] Freeing unused kernel memory: 656k freed
[ 1.086995] Write protecting the kernel text: 4676k
[ 1.087039] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1840k
[ 1.135487] udev: starting version 151
[ 1.202510] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1.549541] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 1.563033] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[ 1.568688] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 1.577931] input: B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input4
[ 1.578184] generic-usb 0003:046D:C025.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [B16_b_02 USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0
[ 1.578253] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 1.578260] usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[ 1.618333] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
[ 1.618410] 8139cp 0000:01:04.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip, use 8139too
[ 1.666853] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
[ 1.666959] 8139too 0000:01:04.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 1.671357] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xc000, 00:c0:a8:8f:7b:ec, IRQ 16
[ 1.760341] EXT4-fs (sda1): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
[ 1.760355] EXT4-fs (sda1): write access will be enabled during recovery
[ 5.251061] EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete
[ 5.251699] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
[ 11.737154] Adding 728056k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:728056k
[ 12.633753] udev: starting version 151
[ 13.213164] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 13.220226] intel_rng: FWH not detected
[ 13.640599] type=1505 audit(1280813270.701:2): operation="profile_load" pid=416 name="/sbin/dhclient3"
[ 13.641461] type=1505 audit(1280813270.701:3): operation="profile_load" pid=416 name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action"
[ 13.641935] type=1505 audit(1280813270.701:4): operation="profile_load" pid=416 name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script"
[ 13.687969] dcdbas dcdbas: Dell Systems Management Base Driver (version 5.6.0-3.2)
[ 13.691877] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[ 13.739628] dell-wmi: No known WMI GUID found
[ 13.741315] parport_pc 00:0a: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[ 13.741355] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
[ 13.780231] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 830M Chipset
[ 13.780607] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 892K stolen memory
[ 13.800500] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000
[ 13.847938] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 13.918012] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 14.159295] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 15.030153] [drm] i915 disabling kernel modesetting for known bad device.
[ 15.030211] pci 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 15.030221] pci 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 15.049031] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[ 15.259340] vga16fb: initializing
[ 15.259354] vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
[ 15.259784] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
[ 15.998443] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
[ 16.735523] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
[ 16.822005] alloc irq_desc for 17 on node -1
[ 16.822012] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[ 16.822029] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 16.822100] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: setting latency timer to 64
[ 17.244047] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54528 usecs (2627 samples)
[ 17.244055] intel8x0: clocking to 48000
[ 18.459988] type=1505 audit(1280813275.517:5): operation="profile_replace" pid=745 name="/sbin/dhclient3"
[ 18.465090] type=1505 audit(1280813275.525:6): operation="profile_replace" pid=745 name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action"
[ 18.465594] type=1505 audit(1280813275.525:7): operation="profile_replace" pid=745 name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script"
[ 18.644693] type=1505 audit(1280813275.705:: operation="profile_load" pid=749 name="/usr/bin/evince"
[ 18.690596] type=1505 audit(1280813275.749:9): operation="profile_load" pid=749 name="/usr/bin/evince-previewer"
[ 18.719691] type=1505 audit(1280813275.777:10): operation="profile_load" pid=749 name="/usr/bin/evince-thumbnailer"
[ 18.798992] type=1505 audit(1280813275.857:11): operation="profile_load" pid=782 name="/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf"
[ 18.800115] type=1505 audit(1280813275.861:12): operation="profile_load" pid=782 name="/usr/sbin/cupsd"
[ 18.821172] type=1505 audit(1280813275.881:13): operation="profile_load" pid=789 name="/usr/sbin/tcpdump"
[ 26.852046] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 78.090022] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 116.302104] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
deathgod@ubuntu:~$ /var/log/messages
bash: /var/log/messages: Permission denied
deathgod@ubuntu:~$

[Lakshmipathi]

May be try Ubuntu again - Xbuntu might need higher-end hardwares

[UnknownDemon]

At one point I did try to install Ubuntu 10.04
But it gave me errors such as [errno 5] and Installation failed because of an unrecoverable error.
Always stalled at 41% and never went further.

[Lakshmipathi]

end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0

I suspect this has to do something with VGA or X

from another forum linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0 sector 0

Hi, I ran into the same problem with suse 9.3. Although the error message does not give a clue about it, at my machine this had to do with SUSE changing back the window/displaymanager to faulty settings. If that is the case you should edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and change DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm" to DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" (if you use kde). Also modify /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager DEFAULT_WM="twm" to DEFAULT_WM="kde".

Try this before moving back to ubuntu.

[Lakshmipathi]

At one point I did try to install Ubuntu 10.04
But it gave me errors such as [errno 5] and Installation failed because of an unrecoverable error.
Always stalled at 41% and never went further.

Strange. Are you sure Ubuntu Cd/DVD is not damaged ?

[Lakshmipathi]

deathgod@ubuntu:~$ /var/log/messages
bash: /var/log/messages: Permission denied
deathgod@ubuntu:~$

you need to have root privileges to access that file.