A regression after beta1 and still not able to find the package responsible

[Brian Murray]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:14:21PM +0500, Omer Akram wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> After Lucid beta1 and very close to beta2 there came a few updates that
> brought a problem that is critical enough that I am not able to use my
> netbook for more than 45 minutes without killing X
> The problem is that when a bunch of applications are running like
> evolution, chromium, empathy and gwibber the hardrive light becomes out
> of control and the cursor starts lagging and eventually in a couple of
> miutes I am not able to even maximize a minimized window and at last I
> have to alt+sysrq+k and restart X and then my system works for an hour.
> 
> 1. Tried the xorg edgers ppa.
> 2. Tried the latest stable kernel 2.26.33 and also 2.26.34RC3.
> 3. Fully erased gwibber and desktopcouch.
> 4. Fully erased empathy.
> 5. Fully removed chromium
> 6. Also removed evolution but still the problem was the same
> 7. Disabled compiz.
> 
> To also rule out that my hardrive is not malfunctioning I installed
> ubuntu on a Memory card and also on a pen drive and in all cases the
> same problem.
> 
> Any help here would be extremely appreciated or atlease if I am able to
> find the exact package responsible I could make my system working for
> me(I hope).

I'm also having an issue where my system is locking up completely and
the only way to use it again is after rebooting by pressing the power
switch.  As part of trying to track down the problem I setup netconsole
as documented at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Netconsole.  After
setting this up I was able to receive some error messages from the
affected system.  This might be helpful in determining what is going on.

Good luck!
--
Brian Murray
Ubuntu Bug Master
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