Public bug reported:
I am not sure how to put this bug but I thought these incidences
shouldn't go unreported (you might want to suggest the summary to a more
meaningful one after reading the description).
I had opened a lot of applications and while entering data in IE4Linux
window and scrolling it, the hard disk started to thrash continuously
and I couldn't do any operations (even mouse movements were almost not
happening).
I pressed Alt-Ctrl-F1 to open a new screen/terminal. I closed the laptop
lid (as I couldn't even lock the desktop with Ctrl-Alt-L) and came back
after around an hour or so. Still the hard disk was continuously busy
and I could see the login prompt. However after typing in login name and
pressing enter didn't bring the password prompt for a long time (5
minutes or so).
I had to hard reboot my laptop to recover from this situation.
I distinctly remember this happening at least a couple of times and I
was forced to hard reboot my laptop (losing unsaved data).
Laptop model: HP Compaq nx6120
$ uname -a
Linux lap432 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux
Let me know any steps I should follow in case I encounter this issue
again.
The applications running at the time were,
Evolution (composing one email in a message window)
Pidgin
Galeon (with many tabs open)
Gnome terminal with screen utility
Laptop was connected to a wireless network (with authentication)
Krdc to another machine (tunneling over ssh)
SSH to another machine (with tunneling enabled)
Gedit
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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