[Bug 479296] Re: Karmic: frequent freezes

[Rick Silva]

Back to report a couple additional observations...

- when the desktop & mouse freeze occurs, I *am* still able to ssh in to
the system. So it appears that it's not a complete system hang

- while connected remotely, if I run 'shutdown -r now' on the afflicted
machine, I notice that the Desktop goes through a graceful shutdown --
the apps start closing one-by-one; and most interestingly, the mouse
becomes responsive again!

- I've a gut feeling that video playback activity may be what causes the
freeze. It appears to occur most often (after I've been playing a video
from within a browser (e.g. youtube); I don't recall it having happened
after I've played a video from a locally-stored file (e.g. VLC playing a
.wmv or .avi) and I've played a lot of music via Rhythmbox since the
last time it freezed. And have gone through dozens of suspend / resume
cycles.

The afflicted Lucid system has been through a number of updates since my
last post. Here's where it's now at:

Linux user1-desktop 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 07:54:58
UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

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Karmic: frequent freezes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/479296
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