Tried the workaround suggested by tenco (posting dated 05-23-2007) :
"Workaround someone mailed me is to turn apic and acpi off. This is done
with the kernel boot parameters "noapic acpi=off"."
Maybe this , or maybe two lib updates received early this morning by
Update Manager , but the problem i
I would like to confirm the bug , occurring in an HP5100 desktop that I
use at work. I started using Edgy on it last January , and it worked
fine. After upgrading to Feisty two weeks ago , the bug made it very
difficult to use the machine, requiring power cycle 3 or 4 times a day.
When the bug oc