Time to eat a bit of crow. I was running with the 2.6.24-17 kernel and the machine froze again. For various reasons I delayed in rebooting it, and got really surprised when, after a few minutes, the screen sloowly, jerkily dimmed. That made me keep on waiting, and after about five minutes the machine suddenly stumbled alive again: the mouse jerkily reproduced the buffered movements from when I fruitlessly had tried to move it; firefox scrolled around a bit for the same reason. Soon the jerkiness attenuated then disappeared and the machine is alive again.
So, it seems that whatever is happening to me is very much not an irreversible crash. Something freezes the machine - still no idea what - but it is something more like a starvation issue that eventually disappears again (or at least, disappeared once). It is worth noting that after the freeze, the usb or intel graphics subsystem is generating tens of thousands of events again; not sure if it is connected. -- Hardy kernel causes overheating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223081 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
