On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:02 AM, <hollunder@gmx.at> wrote:

On Sun, 24 May 2009 21:57:18 -0700
"Aaron L." <elmastero74@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm.......did my reply to Drew go to just him?
>
> This gmail sort-by-subject thing can get weird.
>
> Anyway, I wanted to make sure my symptoms were included in this as
> well, so here it is:
>
> Great thread.
>
> I've been having intermittent lockups on my machine since I installed
> UbuntuStudio on it about 8 months ago.
>
> Started on Hardy. Now on Intrepid.
>
> It took me so long to get Compiz working with my Nvidia GeForce FX
> 5200 that I don't want to even think about moving to Jaunty.
>
> I've ran memtest at least 3 times now with no errors being returned
> each time. I used to think it had something to do with a screensaver
> (and the nvidia driver) but I don't think that's the case. I've been
> sitting in front of it while it's happened and it usually goes like
> this:
>

> 1. usually Firefox dies (last night it happened when I viewed a

> myspace page so it almost seems like a Flash issue)

> 2. the screen goes blank (black)
> 3. my mouse cursor turns into the spinning cursor although I can

> still move it for a few seconds (10-15 or so seconds, I'd say)

> 4. finally, a 100% freeze although I can still see my router/hub

> blinking so it looks like there is network activity
>
> Then I have to do a hard restart.
>
> Funny thing as sometimes it won't happen for a couple of weeks and
> I'll think, "Sweet! It's fixed!"
>
> Then it'll happen twice in a day. Can't imagine that it's good for
> the hard drive with all these hard restarts.
>
> I have a mac laptop sitting nearby though. I'll try the ssh bit when
> it happens and maybe I can figure something out.

Sounds similar to what happens to me (except the flash/firefox thing).
It happens with graphics heavy stuff and during heavy compiles
(kernel..). Mouse is only sometimes responsive for a few seconds.
thought it was gone with 2.6.29 but it came back after a few weeks..

I'm pretty sure it's hardware related, overheating or something with
graphics since it also happened when I had installed windows a few
years ago to play at a LAN-party.

Now it starts to get annoying, I'm just waiting for the perfect laptop
that can be used as audio workstation..

--Philipp

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