Even while writing this e-mail, the system 'froze' several times.

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday, June 10, 2013 04:34:40 PM D. R. Evans wrote:
> Bas G. Roufs - En. said the following at 06/06/2013 04:57 AM :
> > Hello Everybody ,
> > 
> > ever since Kubuntu 12.04 , the system 'freezes' several times each day.
> 
> Yep. My freezes last about 15 seconds and then suddenly everything is
> responsive again.

I had the "freezies" a couple of releases ago but it was gone in 12.10 and 
also in 13.04



> <OT rant>
> My observation over the past few years is that for every thing that gets
> fixed in a new release, in general something else breaks. 13.04 has not
> conformed to this tradition in that there are definitely more broken things
> here than there were in 12.10. For example, my monitor will no longer power
> off after a period of inactivity.

An old bug...  some sessions it will turn off, some sessions not.  I 
eventually put in a cron job of

3 * * * *  /usr/bin/xset -display :0 dpms 1200,0,0


which seemed to help.



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