Back to report a couple additional observations... - when the desktop & mouse freeze occurs, I *am* still able to ssh in to the system. So it appears that it's not a complete system hang
- while connected remotely, if I run 'shutdown -r now' on the afflicted machine, I notice that the Desktop goes through a graceful shutdown -- the apps start closing one-by-one; and most interestingly, the mouse becomes responsive again! - I've a gut feeling that video playback activity may be what causes the freeze. It appears to occur most often (after I've been playing a video from within a browser (e.g. youtube); I don't recall it having happened after I've played a video from a locally-stored file (e.g. VLC playing a .wmv or .avi) and I've played a lot of music via Rhythmbox since the last time it freezed. And have gone through dozens of suspend / resume cycles. The afflicted Lucid system has been through a number of updates since my last post. Here's where it's now at: Linux user1-desktop 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 07:54:58 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux -- Karmic: frequent freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/479296 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
