Is definitely not fixed in Lucid 10.04. I'm facing this since upgrading to Lucid.
Excerpt from the syslog: -------------------------- May 18 11:43:05 damballah kernel: [ 2245.176082] usb 4-1: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216126] INFO: task nautilus:2076 blocked for more than 120 seconds. May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216136] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216141] nautilus D 000076ec 0 2076 1143 0x00000000 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216149] d9f15e08 00200086 f1da0000 000076ec 00000000 c0846740 f3e5291c c0846740 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216159] 5bdf771b 000001f1 c0846740 c0846740 f3e5291c c0846740 c0846740 f0452000 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216167] 00000000 000001f1 f3e52670 c7a9a028 c7a9a02c ffffffff d9f15e34 c058a556 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216176] Call Trace: May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216194] [<c058a556>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xc6/0x130 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216200] [<c058a475>] mutex_lock+0x25/0x40 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216214] [<f83ca3e9>] fat_count_free_clusters+0x29/0x260 [fat] May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216225] [<c016ae38>] ? lock_hrtimer_base+0x28/0x50 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216232] [<c022002f>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x1f/0xe0 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216237] [<c022002f>] ? mntput_no_expire+0x1f/0xe0 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216245] [<f83cc368>] fat_statfs+0xc8/0xe0 [fat] May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216256] [<c02070bd>] vfs_statfs+0x6d/0x80 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216261] [<c02070ed>] vfs_statfs64+0x1d/0x40 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216267] [<c02071eb>] sys_statfs64+0x5b/0x90 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216273] [<c017ab53>] ? do_futex+0xc3/0x1f0 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216278] [<c017acf2>] ? sys_futex+0x72/0x120 May 18 11:43:40 damballah kernel: [ 2280.216285] [<c01033ec>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb May 18 11:43:42 damballah kernel: [ 2282.176066] usb 4-1: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 May 18 11:44:10 damballah kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. ------------------- After login a backup cronjob was started (nice = 19!) and the system got nearly unusable. Should anyone modifiy the bug status to pull some attraction on this issue again? -- INFO: task blocked for more than 120 seconds causes system freeze https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276476 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