Ubuntu 12.04 hanging very frequently

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 03 March 2013 14:29:45 Sanjib Sikder did opine:

> Hi,
> 
> I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 since it was released without any issue
> but it is hanging very frequently since the last week. I have observed
> that since the last update of my Ubuntu, there was an issue with adobe
> flash plug in. A message popped up on every new start of the system
> that it failed to install adobe flash. I installed it manually. From
> then onwards, whenever firefox (the latest version) is running, Ubuntu
> freezes completely if I try to run a few (3 or 4, say) applications
> simultaneously.  It seems if I do not run firefox and use Chrome, the
> system behaves properly.
> 
> I would like to use firefox on Ubuntu 12.04. Please help, so that my
> system does not freeze.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -----------------------------
> *Sanjib Sikder
> **
> 
> *
FWIW, I've no clue if this is the same duck, but kmail in 10.04 LTS is 
suffering greatly since about a week or so back.  Hit any reply, and it may 
be 2 or 3 minutes before the composer opens, you can pop over to a 
different workspace screen, like to htop, and the system is not doing a 
thing.  But just switching workspaces seems to generate enough of an IRQ 
storm that kmail finally gets to execute.  Once the composer window is 
open. then everything is back to normal, till the next time you click one 
of the reply buttons.  I rebooted last night, and the lag is now only 20 
seconds or so, but something has definitely gone aglay in one of the 
updates recently.


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