Sorry about all the repeat posting. I hate to say I deleted my /var/log directory to get the system working well again. I checked through my history of packages upgraded by apt, for notable system things that could have created this new problem. I haven't been paying much attention to this recently so it could be anything:
Wednesday Nov 5, I upgraded: linux-headers-2.6.27-7 (2.6.27-7.15) to 2.6.27-7.16 linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic (2.6.27-7.15) to 2.6.27-7.16 linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic (2.6.27-7.15) to 2.6.27-7.16 Thursday Nov 6, I upgraded: nvidia-96-modaliases (96.43.05-0ubuntu10) to 96.43.09-0ubuntu1 And 'my bad, I think I'm posting in the wrong bug report :O -- kernel 2.6.27-7-generic bug BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/0/0x00000100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286285 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs