Bitcoin core not responding

[Haunting Clown]

My core client which I have had up and running for the past few months now which I've got the default 100 address + 16 generated by myself. My machine currently has 4GB ram which is more than enough I think?

I boot it up and it reaches the splash logo and then goes into not responding mode. I'm in a Linux Ubuntu environment.

I'm going to try and reinstall with backing everything up once again to my USB drive.

[cr1776]

Does the bitcoin log show anything (e.g. where it is getting hung up)?  Did you give it much time to finish? (e.g. if it was a few minutes it could have been doing the block database verify).

(debug.log is in here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory)