Well, it's happened again, this time on Xfce. I could still move cursor and windows around and top and the toolbars were still updating, but unfortunately everything else was shot. Then the toolbars died as well. Couldn't even open a terminal to shut down the machine or kill any processes.
However, top was open, so I was able to write down the top four cpu- users: ksoftirqd/1 dd klogd firefox ksoftirqd in particular was using up to 60%, dd anywhere from 30%-50%, klogd usually around 30s, and firefox about 15% or so (there were actually two instances running, on account of my clicking the firefox launcher twice before the machine hung. -- Hardy Heron locks up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249123 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
