@Ulrich...I know this has been mentioned before, but you could try out
one of the karmic kernels and see if you still have problems...if you
are, then you can be fairly sure your problems aren't related
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Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28
So this is probably not terribly helpful, but I'd like to add that like
the person in a duplicate bug (#34312), I also experience lockups
seemingly at random (I'll sit down at my computer which has been idle
for awhile and find everything frozen and the caps lock key flashing).
I'm running Jaunty
@Rocko: just switched, and everything seems fine. I can run hang.py w/o
a problem, and I've got a hunch there won't be any random freezes
anymore. Given this bug report, I've been meaning to switch kernels, but
only just got around to itThanks!
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Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files
