Hardy Lockups

[Keith Clark]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 17:04 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote:
> Keith Clark wrote:
> > I seem to be having many problems with my laptop since upgrading to
> > Hardy.  I can work on my machine for 3 hours, then over a span of 15-30
> > seconds things slow right down, become unresponsive and then the
> > keyboard locks up.  I have no choice but to power cycle.
> > 
> > I have no idea why this would happen.  Any ideas on this one.  It did
> > not happen in the last release.
> 
> Are there any hints in /var/log/messages?

These are the last lines in the /var/log/messages file right before the
slow down and lockup.

Jun 11 13:52:09 keith-laptop pulseaudio[5969]: pstream.c: Failed to
import memory block.
Jun 11 13:53:43 keith-laptop pulseaudio[5969]: pstream.c: Failed to
import memory block.
Jun 11 14:05:52 keith-laptop -- MARK --
Jun 11 14:20:10 keith-laptop pulseaudio[5969]: pstream.c: Failed to
import memory block.
Jun 11 14:40:42 keith-laptop pulseaudio[5969]: pstream.c: Failed to
import memory block.
Jun 11 14:41:47 keith-laptop last message repeated 2 times
Jun 11 14:42:47 keith-laptop last message repeated 3 times
Jun 11 14:51:54 keith-laptop pulseaudio[5969]: pstream.c: Failed to
import memory block.

Keith