Interesting theory, I wonder if other the other subscribers to this bug can confirm that they are all using multi-core or multi-processor systems.
I for one, am using a dual-core processor and am experiencing all the different types of lockups described by Andeas Kielkopf. In addition, sometimes when the crash number 1 happens (everything is totally locked up), both the caps-lock and num-lock leds of my laptop start flashing start flashing. cat /proc/cpuinfo gives me the following info (extract) model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz, stepping : 13 cpu cores : 2 -- Clocksource tsc unstable leads to lockups in Ubuntu Jaunty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355155 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