Dear Christopher, thank you very much for you reply! I beg pardon for responding so late - I could not try your suggestion until now. I updated the BIOS: now - from what I could see - LibreOffice seems not freezing the system anymore, but 'simply' crash Compiz.
Giving in a terminal the command sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date I obtained the following output: 220 06/23/2010 Trying to play around with LibreOffice options, I could however observe that my problem seems related to the use of the sidebar: after deactivating the latter, crashes and freezes seems to be disappeared... Well, until now. >From what I could see, I'm induced to think the bug is actually related to >Compiz - likely, to its management ot the Nvidia graphic card. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1261237 Title: 10de:0653 [Asus K70IO] System crashes (freezes) while LibreOffice is running Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: On Ubuntu 13.10 with Nvidia proprietary drivers, if any of LibreOffice applications is running, after a while the system freezes. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: linux-image-3.11.0-15-generic 3.11.0-15.23 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.23-generic 3.11.10 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2 Architecture: amd64 CheckboxSubmission: 99cf2ef54ffbe2870a0a50494c3da3f0 CheckboxSystem: b8f3ec504801f13fc208edb5c785b099 Date: Mon Dec 16 00:46:03 2013 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=fe903fed-1cbb-439e-b68c-f525d022bbde InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-08-26 (1207 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429) MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K70IO MarkForUpload: True ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-15-generic root=UUID=4e4f6207-dfd7-44b5-b5a3-f53a6ae0a17f ro quiet splash RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.11.0-15-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.11.0-15-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.116 SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-01 (75 days ago) WifiSyslog: Dec 16 00:22:59 luca-laptop NetworkManager[902]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted Dec 16 00:28:59 luca-laptop NetworkManager[902]: <warn> nl_recvmsgs() error: (-33) Dump inconsistency detected, interrupted Dec 16 00:35:13 luca-laptop kernel: [ 1081.998640] perf samples too long (5003 > 5000), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 25000 dmi.bios.date: 09/11/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 216 dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567 dmi.board.name: K70IO dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr216:bd09/11/2009:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnK70IO:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnK70IO:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr: dmi.product.name: K70IO dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1261237/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
