Ubuntu Desktop locks

[Lisa Kachold]

I would look in a new moment of time on Saturday specific to the
hardware, but I got my information on the Ubuntu Forums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/f-333-p-133.html

On 7/23/09, John <jharitos at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes, do you have the article link that you could share.
>
> Mine started locking up as well. KDE 4.2.4 was worse as every morning I'd
> come back and it would be in low graphics mode. I switched to Gnome and it
> would freeze every other day. I'm running some php laconica scripts in the
> background that are known for memory leaks but I have a cron job restart the
> processes every 3 hours. I attributed my freezes to the php scripts. I'm
> using the nvidia drivers for the 5200 and I don't have Compbiz enabled. When
> it happens you can't ssh in so I can't restart my comp when I'm on the road.
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
> John
>
> --- On Wed, 7/22/09, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
>> Subject: Re: Ubuntu Desktop locks
>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 11:40 PM
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Ted
>> Gould<ted at gould.cx>
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 12:46 -0700, Alexander Henry
>> wrote:
>> >> This has been happening about once a day or every
>> other day.  The
>> >> desktop simply locks up.  I discover that the
>> cursor doesn't move, then
>> >> I try alt-tab, ctrl-alt-backspace,
>> ctrl-alt-delete, clrl-alt-F*,
>> >> nothing.  Have to power cycle to break it.
>> >>
>> >> Any ideas?  It's a rather hard problem to search
>> for.
>> >
>> > Intel graphics?  There's some big problems with the
>> Intel drivers in
>> > 9.04.  They seem to happen less when disabling Compiz
>> and other 3d
>> > graphics.  There's also an X edgers PPA that has
>> updated drivers, but
>> > they're a little more bleeding edge.
>> >
>> >                --Ted
>>
>> Mine locks up also.  It was fine right after install,
>> but after update
>> it was schnerbed.  I found an article/bug for it and
>> rolled back the
>> patch.
>>
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