I have been using a company computer running Ubuntu 22.04. There are frequent and unexplained problems, like segmentation faults, stack errors, files disappearing, computer freezing or not booting, or turning off immediately after I turn it on. I don’t know what to do. The IT staff came to my office to check the computer and said “it was all good.” I am not allowed to boot from a USB stick or enter BIOS or open the case. I ran a command line memory check several times with no errors. There is an NVIDIA card, but it’s running X.org and usually headless. I mostly set up tasks via SSH.

What would you do?

  • LogarithmicCamel@feddit.ukOP
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    4 months ago

    I can sudo. Last time I looked into this, Memtest86+ version 6 was required to work with UEFI but it wasn’t available for Ubuntu 22.04. Now it seems that 24.04 has it, so I might update and see if I can get the test running. Thanks for the suggestion!

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      4 months ago

      You can get the binary from the project’s website. Still not suggesting to f around with it.

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        4 months ago

        They should be able to put memtest on the boot partition and then break to an EFI shell on boot and Ioad it manually.

        There will be a bit of swearing and googling required but it’s doable in a way that doesn’t mess with the current boot arrangement.