gst: as you are running a vanilla kernel (or almost), and assuming it is not tainted, maybe you could report the problem on the lkml?
They will be a pain because Skype is proprietory, but the bug is clearly a kernel bug, and other applications could potentially trigger it. As you said, it's a DoS vulnerability. -- BUG() report in getnstimeofday: soft lockup https://launchpad.net/bugs/53216 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
