whats overwriting a file

The warning itself is no big deal. There must be another problem here. Try the following: If the PC crashes press ctrl+alt+F1 at once. If that gets you a terminal, log in. If not you're in trouble. (-; After you logged in type "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg". It asks you a bunch of questions. If your not sure what to answer just take the default. When your done type "sudo gdm restart". If it still dosen´t work press ctrl+alt+f1 again and than ctrl+c. After that type " cat /var/log/Xorg.* | grep EE" and post the output here. If there is no output type "dmesg" and also post the last 20 lines (or so) of its output here.

keeps crashing,and rebooting its self,tried your idea of ctrl+alt+F1,left a
blank screen
Left myself in some problems mainly to reset the log in name etc.
The computer told me that the OEM installer failed and I should report a
bug.!!!!!!

2009/6/14 Julian Dax <email address hidden>

> Your question #74251 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/74251
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Julian Dax proposed the following answer:
> The warning itself is no big deal. There must be another problem here.
> Try the following: If the PC crashes press ctrl+alt+F1 at once. If that
> gets you a terminal, log in. If not you're in trouble. (-; After you
> logged in type "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg". It asks you a bunch
> of questions. If your not sure what to answer just take the default.
> When your done type "sudo gdm restart". If it still dosen´t work press
> ctrl+alt+f1 again and than ctrl+c. After that type " cat /var/log/Xorg.*
> | grep EE" and post the output here. If there is no output type "dmesg"
> and also post the last 20 lines (or so) of its output here.
>
> --
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When starting the computer this morning it did a routine check of the drives and posted a fail message
error"vm.mmap_min_addr"is a unknown key{fail}

As requested

ial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
[ 19.516000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[ 19.516000]
/build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c:
USB Serial Driver core
[ 19.544000]
/build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c:
USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port)
[ 19.544000] option 3-2:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 19.544000] usb 3-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 19.544000] option 3-2:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 19.544000] usb 3-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[ 19.544000] option 3-2:1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
[ 19.548000] usb 3-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
[ 19.548000] usbcore: registered new interface driver option
[ 19.548000]
/build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/usb/serial/option.c: USB
Driver for GSM modems: v0.7.1
[ 19.616000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) ->
IRQ 19
[ 19.616000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
[ 19.644000] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 19.676000] input: PS/2 Mouse as /class/input/input2
[ 19.700000] input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /class/input/input3
[ 19.868000] hsfengine: module license 'see LICENSE file distributed with
driver' taints kernel.
[ 20.448000] cnxthsf_NVM_Open: cannot create instance
0-HDA-14f12c06:14f1000f-0: err=-2 will retry later...
[ 20.592000] call_dcp_daemon: /usr/sbin/hsfdcpd returned -2
[ 21.116000] cnxthsf_OsEventWaitTime(d62741a0/HDA CodecUnsolicitedmessage,
40): returning OSEVENT_WAIT_TIMEOUT
[ 21.160000] cnxthsf_OsEventWaitTime(d62741a0/HDA CodecUnsolicitedmessage,
40): returning OSEVENT_WAIT_TIMEOUT
[ 21.204000] cnxthsf_OsEventWaitTime(d62741a0/HDA CodecUnsolicitedmessage,
40): returning OSEVENT_WAIT_TIMEOUT
[ 21.216000] ttySHSF0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 0) is a Conexant HSF softmodem
(HDA-14f12c06:14f1000f-0)
[ 21.288000] ipw3945: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[ 21.288000] Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to
work.
[ 21.560000] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 21.684000] Adding 1485972k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1
across:1485972k
[ 21.724000] ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
[ 22.252000] EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal
[ 23.184000] audit(1245064507.474:3): type=1505 operation="profile_load"
info="unsupported interface version" pid=4443
[ 23.244000] audit(1245064507.474:4): type=1505 operation="profile_load"
info="unsupported interface version" pid=4448
[ 23.436000] audit(1245064507.974:5): type=1505 operation="profile_load"
info="unsupported interface version" pid=4452
[ 23.580000] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 24.216000] No dock devices found.
[ 24.304000] input: Lid Switch as /class/input/input4
[ 24.304000] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 24.304000] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input5
[ 24.304000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
[ 24.332000] input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input6
[ 24.332000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
[ 24.400000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
[ 24.428000] ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[ 24.428000] ACPI: Video Device [VID2] (multi-head: yes rom: no post:
no)
[ 25.400000] Failure registering capabilities with primary security
module.
[ 25.896000] apm: BIOS not found.
[ 26.836000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 33.816000] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 33.820000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) ->
IRQ 16
[ 33.820000] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
[ 51.116000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 51.116000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 87.680000] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 87.880000] PPP BSD Compression module registered
[ 87.944000] PPP Deflate Compression module registered
roger@dell-desktop:~$

2009/6/14 Julian Dax <email address hidden>

> Your question #74251 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/74251
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Julian Dax proposed the following answer:
> The warning itself is no big deal. There must be another problem here.
> Try the following: If the PC crashes press ctrl+alt+F1 at once. If that
> gets you a terminal, log in. If not you're in trouble. (-; After you
> logged in type "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg". It asks you a bunch
> of questions. If your not sure what to answer just take the default.
> When your done type "sudo gdm restart". If it still dosen´t work press
> ctrl+alt+f1 again and than ctrl+c. After that type " cat /var/log/Xorg.*
> | grep EE" and post the output here. If there is no output type "dmesg"
> and also post the last 20 lines (or so) of its output here.
>
> --
> If this answers your question, please go to the following page to let us
> know that it is solved:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/74251/+confirm?answer_id=0
>
> If you still need help, you can reply to this email or go to the
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updated to ubuntu9.04 this solved the problem